On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Cliff Clive <cliffcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > This should be an easy question, I think. > > I'd like to write a command in a program to set the working directory to > whatever directory the file is currently stored in. Suppose I have a file > called "myRscript.r", and it's stored in "C:\Rprojects\myRscript.r", and it > references other R scripts and data files in the same directory. > > If I enter the command > >> setwd("C:/Rprojects") > > I can then access all the files I need without typing the path. > > But suppose I want to move all of those files into another folder, say, > "C:\NewFolder". And suppose I might do this fairly often, or make copies of > the script in several folders. Is there a command that looks something like > this: > >> setwd( <look up current directory> ) > > that will work no matter where I move my project, without having to go in > and re-type the new directory path?
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