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Exercise

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.

Instructions

100 XP
  • 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