R – Reference environment & settings commands

A list of commands I have used in R for information about the environment or general settings.

• Version info: R.Version()
• Clear the terminal console: cat(“\014”) – In effect, this sends the ‘Ctrl L’  keystroke to the console
• Workspace info:
  • Show the current workspace: getwd()
  • Set the workspace to use: setwd(‘folder path goes here…’)
  • Note: When copying and pasting in Windows, the backslash operates as an escape character in R. This can be avoided by using:   r”(path)” 
        eg. setwd( r”(C:\documents\Data Analysis\R Prog & Data Sci)” )