Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0208161057070.1664-100000@petrel>
Date: 2002-08-16T09:59:42Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: changing directory (was system command)
In-Reply-To: <3D5CC005.28387B88@knmi.nl>
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Nader Emami wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is very simple question. I want to go to the parent directory and
> give the 'system("cd ../") commnad. But it stayes at the same dirctory
> as before. Do I forget to give some extra parameter to system command in
> this case?
That launches a shell, changes working directory in that shell, then quits.
setwd("..") should do what I guess you intended, change the working
directory of the R process itself.
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