R: getwd() and setwd() (Part II)

Introduction

R is a very popular programming language for statistical analysis of data. All kind of tools are supporting R or they will. In this blogpost and followup blogpost I've gathered some constructs in R that are quite often used when you program in R. This is not a complete list but it is a handy list.

This is the second post about R in a series:

• R : An introduction (Part I).
• R : getwd() and setwd()  (Part II).

getwd() and setwd()

The first step using R is checking out the working directory. The working directory is the place where all of your project files are placed.You need to keep track in each of your R session.If you read or write files, this takes place in the working directory.

> getwd()
[1] "C:/Users/Hennie/Documents"

Setting the working directory is executed with setwd()

> setwd("~/Coursera-RProgramming")
> getwd()
[1] "C:/Users/Hennie/Documents/Coursera-RProgramming" 

Conclusion

With setwd() and getwd() the workingdirectory is set and checked.

Greetz,
Hennie