Scratch that -- while true, it doesn't seem to cause that error message. Can you do this?
list.dirs("/Users/user/Desktop/Recorded results/") Also, are you sure you have various access permissions to the Wednesday folder? Michael On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:25 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are on a mac, you don't need to escape spaces within setwd(): > e.g., on my machine, setwd("~/Desktop/Current Semester") works just > fine. > > Michael > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, mela <dashmisa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to write program to run some results from an experiment. i have the >> results saved in 2 different files, named "tuesday" and "wednesday" (both >> located within the same file). when i wrote the program for "tuesday" i had >> no problem running it, but when i changed the work directory to wednesday i >> got the "cannot change working directory" message. I don't understand what's >> different between the two. >> >> my first code was: >> >> setwd("/Users/user/Desktop/Recorded\ results/tuesday") >> >> and my second code is: >> >> setwd("/Users/user/Desktop/Recorded\ results/wednesday") >> >> and i copied the exact location from the terminal, so i can't have typos (i >> am using a mac, if that makes any difference). >> >> any suggestions? i will be grateful for any insight. >> >> thanks >> >> mela >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/cannot-change-working-directory-tp4492812p4492812.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.