Tag: Rstudio

  • R – Finding and Setting Working Directory

    R – Finding and Setting Working Directory

    R, like many software programs, likes to have a folder or directory on your computer to operate in. When you start R, depending on how you start it and whether or not you previously saved your session, it’s likely that R will set a default “working directory” or folder where it is going to look…

  • R – changing mirror in RStudio

    R – changing mirror in RStudio

    CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) is a distributed set of servers that allow people to download the various R packages from a bunch of servers that are all “mirrors” of each other. These servers or mirrors are called “repositories.” There are many advantages to this: (1) people can download from a mirror that is…