If you have an R-icon on the desktop, use the right mouse button and go to "properties". At the "execute in" line insert your data directory "C:/R/DATA".
Hope it helps Udo Zitat von francogrex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dear helpers, > I've looked in the help files (maybe not very thoroughly but I looked) and I > couldn't find a straightforward way to permanently set the working directory > (where I save and read files). Each time I startup R the working dir is > automatically "C:/R/bin" [using:getwd()], and I know I can change it using > setwd [for example setwd("C:/R/DATA"), but it's only a transient change for > the session, when I close and start a new R session it's in "C:/R/bin" > again. How can I set it definitively to "C:/R/DATA" without having to redo > it every session? Thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Permanent-change-to-the-working-directory-tp16761149p16761149.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. > -------------------------------------------- Udo K N G Ö I Clinic for Child an Adolescent Psychiatry Philipps University of Marburg / Germany ______________________________________________ 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.