[R] Permanent change to the working directory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is answered in rw-FAQ Q2.5 !

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Eik Vettorazzi wrote:

> On windows machines you could change the `Start in' field of the desktop
> shortcut for R to the desired working directory - you will find this in
> the properties of the shortcut. You could easily create several
> shortcuts for different projects this way.
>
> You may also consider changing your .Rprofile, see ?.Rprofile
>
> hth.
>
>
> francogrex schrieb:
>> Dear helpers,
>> I've looked in the help files (maybe not very thoroughly but I looked) and I
>> couldn't find a straightforward way to permanently set the working directory
>> (where I save and read files). Each time I startup R the working dir is
>> automatically "C:/R/bin" [using:getwd()], and I know I can change it using
>> setwd [for example setwd("C:/R/DATA"), but it's only a transient change for
>> the session, when I close and start a new R session it's in "C:/R/bin"
>> again. How can I set it definitively to "C:/R/DATA" without having to redo
>> it every session? Thanks
>>
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