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5.3.1 Setting/changing your Working directory
You can set/change your working directory by using RStudio interface and by using R language command. Perform
the following steps to set/change working directory:
Step 1: From RStudio, select Session Æ Set Working Directory Æ Choose Directory option from the menu bar.
The Choose Working Directory dialog box appears.
Step 2: Select the desired directory and click on the Open button. In this case, we have selected Data Science
directory under Documents directory.
It is also possible to use the R language function setwd(), which stands for set working directory, to set the working
directory. The path of the directory that you want to set as working directory is passed as a string parameter in the setwd()
function. The directory path can either be a relative path or an absolute path. For Windows, the command might look like:
setwd(“c:/Documents/my/working/directory”)
You can also set the working directory from the Files tab.
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