[R] "cannot change working directory"

[R. Michael Weylandt]

If you are on a mac, you don't need to escape spaces within setwd():
e.g., on my machine,  setwd("~/Desktop/Current Semester") works just
fine.

Michael

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, mela <dashmisafta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to write  program to run some results from an experiment. i have the
> results saved in 2 different files, named "tuesday" and "wednesday" (both
> located within the same file). when i wrote the program for "tuesday" i had
> no problem running it, but when i changed the work directory to wednesday i
> got the "cannot change working directory" message. I don't understand what's
> different between the two.
>
> my first code was:
>
> setwd("/Users/user/Desktop/Recorded\ results/tuesday")
>
> and my second code is:
>
> setwd("/Users/user/Desktop/Recorded\ results/wednesday")
>
> and i copied the exact location from the terminal, so i can't have typos (i
> am using a mac, if that makes any difference).
>
> any suggestions? i will be grateful for any insight.
>
> thanks
>
> mela
>
>
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