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

[Sarah Goslee]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:58 AM, WRAY NICHOLAS
<nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Thanks Sarah  I didn't realise that there was a distinction between between
> asking about R per se and asking about r-studio...  I shall try specifying
> the path and see whether that helps   Thanks, Nick

Yes, R-Studio is a commercial product (with a free and OSS version)
that builds on R, and not part of the R Project. You can get R-Studio
support here:
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us


> On 09 October 2015 at 16:51 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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