One of the things that has really simplified things for my students is
using RStudio to run R, and then always creating (working within) an
RProject.
The location of the RProject becomes the default location (home folder)
for all related files in the project. It dispenses with having to teach
the students too much about absolute and relative paths, and it is very
flexible in the sense that you can move a folder from one drive to
another or from one computer to another, and things still work as long
as you start R (RStudio) with the same project selected.
I had no end of agony with "path confusion" before using this approach.
Rob
On 12/8/2025 5:22 AM, Calboli Federico (LUKE) wrote:
Hello,
I need to provide the simplest possible indication to R users with either
windows or macos machines on how to change working directory. Using setwd()
will not work because I cannot trust them to even understand the concept of
working directory.
On macos it is possible to have a GUI menu (the standard R GUI) that would allow the
users to "click their way to where their data files are", is there such
facility for the windows R GUI (the out-of-the-box one)? I have no access to windows
machines, so I cannot check, but I am sure some people will use a windows laptop.
F
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