How to use path value stored in variable in setwd function in R

Question

path <- "C:/Users/R studio"

setwd("path/test")

# considering that R studio has directory named as test

This setwd function is not working. Can you please show how to use common path address as a variable in setwd so that if I want to change the directory to other subdirectories of the home path, then I can just append the new part at the end of the variable. Basically, I want to know how to use variable as a path in setwd.

assuming test is a directory in R studio setwd(paste0(path,"/test") or better yet just drop the path variable and pass the full path to setwd — Nate
– Nate, Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 18:24

Amit Kohli · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-21 18:31:11Z

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you are including path inside the quotation marks..... so it's interpretting as a litteral "path". You want it to be a variable, so outside of the "".

So what you want to say is.

set path to whatever_path_is + "test".

You do this in R using the paste command... so:

setwd(paste(path,"/test",sep=""))

sep=seperator... so what should go between pastes.

answered Oct 21, 2016 at 18:31

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