Better: Use R projects instead of setting the working directory

  • Each project of yours would correspond to its R project
  • You don’t need to set working directories
  • Your files within the project are easily accessible and you don’t need to speciy the full file paths
  • It makes your life much, much easier

To make an R project corresponding to the conference folder (2019_predict_conference):

You’ve now got a basic outlook of how to work with R and RStudio