



If you want to change directories, you can use the setwd() command or if you are in the Windows GUI, you go to "File." and then click on "Change dir" If you are entering a directory path you can use " Note that R uses "/" to separate directories (like unix) and not the Windows' " You can find what directory you are in with the getwd() command: If you just double-click from the desktop, you probably don't know what directory you are using - R starts in the default directory. Warning: Many parts of this may be Windows specific. This is not how you would export a ame so that you could give it to someone to read as a spreadsheet, for example (for which you would want write.table maybe) However, this is for manipulating R objects, which are meant to be read and handled in R. This tutorial gives some useful commands for working with R objects. Or perhaps you have run out of room on your Stanford account and need to delete your R objects, but would like to save some of them separately and zip them up. If you become a frequent user of R, you may find that you want to get some object that you made in R and move it to a different computer to work on it.
