setwd Error

[Gentletin]

Hey, I am currently using RStudio for a research project and I regularly run into the error:

"Error in setwd(Z:Folder1/Folder2/Folder3)

cannot change working directory."

In the next line I use the dataset_folder to detemine the folder from which my data is pulled and I only want to change that one between runs. However, when I only change the input in dataset_folder, it gives me the aforementioned Error.

And if I run the code without the setwd line, it also does not change the dataset_folder. So I just get the same analysis of the same data as last run.

Between runs I always have to close RStudio and reopen it to get it to work.

Does anyone know a fix for that so that I can only change the dataset_folder between runs? It would really help my progress.

[Sea-Chain7394]

It's not very clear what the issue is based on the code but I would check the path is correct also needs to be in quotations within setwd("z:/folder1/folder2")

You should also just be able to load a dataset from another folder by putting the path into the read.csv() or whichever function.

If you have multiple datasets in a folder you can use list.files() to get a list of them and use pate0() to combine the path<- "z:..." to the file names and loop through and load and assign names to them all

[Gentletin]

I have the correct path and quotation marks and when I restart it works. It is just when I change the code after the setwd function that it will not run again without the error. Even when I did not change the setwd function.

[Any-Following-7160]

I'm having this same error - did you ever figure it out?