Since you are using ESS, you need to start R in the working directory you want.
Since you are using Windows, please do read the rw-FAQ which covers this for the normal usage calls and asks you to send ESS questions to ess-help. On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Fred J. wrote: > when I close and reopen R it gives back a different wd > than what I used in setwd. how can I get it to > permenently use dirname in setwd("dirname") and not > the other name it keeps defaulting to? > I am using W2K and ESS -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html