Dir path in R

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Category: File | Language: R

In R, you can get the directory path using the getwd() function.

For example, to get the current working directory path, you can simply type:

getwd()

This will output the directory path as a string, like so:

[1] "/Users/username/Documents"

If you want to set a new working directory, you can use the setwd() function, like so:

setwd("/Users/username/Documents/R")

This will set the working directory to a new location.

You can also use the dirname() function to get the directory path of a specific file in R.

For example, if you have a file called "example.txt" in your current working directory, you can get the directory path like so:

file_path <- "example.txt"
dirname(file_path)

This will output the directory path as a string, like so:

[1] "/Users/username/Documents/R"