[R] Why can I reset directory in using setwd on desktop but not on laptop

[Sarah Goslee]

Sounds like an RStudio question to me. Someone might be able to help,
but this mailing list is for R.

You should also provide sessionInfo() output when asking potentially
OS-related questions.

You can always specify path as part of the write.csv() or other output
command; you don't need to change the working directory necessarily.

Sarah

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:43 AM, WRAY NICHOLAS
<nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi  I am running the same r routine on both my desktop and my laptop, and
> writing results in the form of csv files into storage folders in the respective
> users/documents files of both machines  My desktop machine allows me to reset
> the directory in the course of the r programme so that I can write the files
> into different folders which makes it easier to keep track of what's what,
> whereas my laptop won't allow me to reset the directory by a setwd command, and
> I have to set the directory manually using the r studio tabs, so basically on
> the laptop every results file is going into the same folder, which is not
> unworkable but not as easy to use later
>
> As far as I know I have the same r studio on both machines.  Does anyone out
> there know a) why I can't use a setwd command on the laptop, and b)is there
> anything I can do to put this right?
>
> Thanks beforehand, as it were
>
> Nick Wray