[R] Strange behaviour of setwd/getwd

[Markus Holotta]

I've found the following strange behaviour R (RStudio) which has been  
confirmed by another user in RGui.


Inside a script I want to set two variables:

default.wd = getwd()
tmp.wd = setwd(choose.dir())

After choosing tmp.wd the value of default.wd is shown in Workspace, but  
getwd() is giving back the correct string of tmp.wd.
  Is there a workaround for the problem?

I'm working on RStudio 0.96.228 and R 2.15.2.

Regards
Markus