L5: Reading Data and Working Directories

Bogdan G. Popescu

John Cabot University

The Working Directory

The R environment always points to a certain directory on our computer, which is known as the working directory.

We can get the current working directory with getwd

Type that in a new chunk. What is your current working directory?

getwd()

The R environment always points to a certain directory on our computer, which is known as the working directory.

We can get the current working directory with getwd

Type that in a new chunk. What is your current working directory?

getwd()

[1] "/Users/bgpopescu/Dropbox/john_cabot/teaching/big_data/week3"

Create a new folder called “week3”

Then set the directory using setwd

To know the directory on a MacOS, you go to the week3 folder and click on “Get Info”

Select what is in the “Where” section