R help - Jun 2004 - setwd problems

Hello,

I am using R for Windows and I receive error messages when trying to
change my working directory:
> setwd('C:\BACC_R')
Error in setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory

I would really appreciate your help,
Joan Serra

Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using R for Windows and I receive error messages when trying to
> change my working directory:
>
> > setwd('C:\BACC_R')
> Error in setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory
Have you tried:
  setwd("C:/BACC_R")
Or
  setwd("C:\\BACC_R")

HTH

Kevin

--------------------------------------------
Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, MSc(Hon)
SLC Stats Workshops Co-ordinator
The University of Auckland
New Zealand

Joan Serra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using R for Windows and I receive error messages when trying to
> change my working directory:
> 
> 
>>setwd('C:\BACC_R')
> 
> Error in setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory
> 
> I would really appreciate your help,
> Joan Serra
> 
Hi Joan,

Please review the following:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/rw-FAQ.html

In rw-FAQ 4.1 it says:

<quote>
4.1 What should I expect to behave differently from the Unix version of R?
<snip>
Paths to files (e.g. in source()) can be specified with either "/" or
"\\".
</quote>

Try setwd('C:/BACC_R') or setwd('C:\\BACC_R').


--sundar