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Helper I

3 years ago

Solved

Error in RStudio when setting directory

Hi i´m not sure if this is the exact forum to solve this issue, but i´m currently doing a free online course on PowerBI and i got into this class where we learn some basic R language to use the progr...

v-jianboli-msft
3 years ago
Hi VBeaklini ,

Your working directory seems to be pointing to a file?

Please change it to a folder, such as: setwd("C:/Users/Victor/Desktop/PowerBI/")

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Jianbo Li

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v-jianboli-msft

Community Support

3 years ago

It seems that you want to use setwd() function?

The setwd() function stands for set working directory. This is used to set the working environment.

Please check your spelling, it is setwd() not setdw()

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

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Helper I

3 years ago

Holy crap i´m so dumb. Thanks.

However now that i set thing correctly i now run into this new error:

setwd("C:/Users/Victor/Desktop/PowerBI/VendasR.csv")
Error in setwd("C:/Users/Victor/Desktop/PowerBI/VendasR.csv") :
cannot change working directory

Any thoughts?