How to get R to recognize your working directory as its working directory?
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I use R under Windows on several machines.
I know you can set the working directory from within an R script, like this
setwd("C:/Documents and Settings/username/My Documents/x/y/z")
... but then this breaks the portability of the script. It's also annoying to have to reverse all the slashes (since Windows gives you backslashes)
Is there a way to start R in a particular working directory so that you don't need to do this at the script level?
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