Changing working directories in R

In this last exercise we shortly introduced the function setwd(). This function takes a character string as a name to set the working directory. You can either provide it a relative path, or you provide it an absolute path. An example of an absolute path is the following:

setwd("C:/Users/Username/Documents/datasets")

An example of a relative path is the following:

setwd("./datasets")

If you would use the latter option in your local R session, it uses the string "C:/Users/Username/Documents" through the use of the . character. In datacamp, it takes the current working directory and combines it with the datasets folder. As such, it saves the user a lot of typing.

Print out the current working directory using the function getwd()
Change the curent working directory to the output that you got from the getwd() function

Exercise

Changing working directories in R

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