[R] setting new working directories

[Professor Brian Ripley]

Abhijit Dasgupta wrote:
> An additional note for Windows. The directory name needs to be written 
> as "C:/Project/Working directory" or "C:\\Project\\Working directory" as 
> opposed to the usual way of referencing directories in Windows.

Which are?  Those are the forms given in the Microsoft documentation.

The 2002 edition of MASS is not at all out of date: the 1994 edition is
explicitly about S-PLUS (and the 'Windows' version of S-PLUS in 1994 was 
in fact a DOS program running under an extender).


> AA wrote:
>> use setwd() and getwd(). see ?setwd
>> or on the shortcut properties tab, set the target directory to your working dir and have
>> as many shortcuts as working directories.
>> working with R commands does it for me.
>> all the best.
>> A.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Bill Shipley <bill.shipley at usherbrooke.ca>
>> To: R help list <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:41:35 AM
>> Subject: [R] setting new working directories
>>
>> Hello, and Happy New Year.  My default working directory is getting very
>> cluttered.  I know that I should be using a different working directory for
>> each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go about creating
>> different ones and moving back and forth between them.  I have read Venables
>> & Ripley (Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS, 1994) but this seems out of
>> date with respect to this topic and have searched through the documentation
>> but cannot find a clear explanation for doing this.  Can someone point me to
>> the proper documentation for creating and using different working
>> directories from within Windows (please, no comments about switching to
>> UNIX...).
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill Shipley
>>
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