File commands

# get working directory

getwd()

"/home/username"

# show content of current folder

dir()

"Desktop" "Downloads"

# cd change into a directory

setwd('/path/to/new/directory')

# change to directory "Desktop"

setwd('Desktop')

# change back to parent directory "/home/username"

setwd('..')

# Path in Windows

a) use double backslash (to avoid string interpretation by R)

filepath=('C:\\path\\to\\file.tsv')

b) using slash instead of backslash, also for Windows path in R

filepath=('C:/path/to/file.tsv')

# platform specific file separator: "/" Unix or "\" Windows

.Platform$file.sep

path = paste(path, .Platform$file.sep, filename, sep=''")

# create path of directory and file name

path = paste(filedir, filename, sep = "/")

path = paste(filedir, filename, sep=.Platform$file.sep)

# or, better using file.path:

file.path(getwd(), 'myfile.txt')

# path completion

'~/Projects/ ... <Tab>

# create dir, if doesn't exist

mydir = 'testDir'

if !file.exists(mydir) dir.create(mydir)

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