Change the "Start in:" property on the shortcut you used to start R with. Right-click on the R icon and click Properties (you may need to right click once, then again if you are using the "pinned" start menu icon in Windows 7). Then when you start R again with that shortcut it will use the directory you choose.
I'm not sure if you can control this during the install, but mine is set to use the "Documents" folder in my user account. Cheers, Mike. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:35 PM, W Eryk Wolski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed R on a new Windows 7 machine (as admin). > > > I feel quite uncomfortable knowing that the default WD when starting R is: > >> getwd() > [1] "C:/Windows/system32" > > > > I guess I did something wrong when installing R... How to change R's > default working directory? > > regards > > Eryk > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Michael Sumner Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia e-mail: [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
