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How to open next folder in working directory for only one file?

I have a working directory

setwd("C:/User/WorkDirectory")

I have files in the working directory

"File 1.csv", "File 2.csv", "File 3.csv", "Folder 1"

I have no problem accessing the 3 files

df1<-read.csv("File 1.csv",check.names=FALSE)

However i would like to open the file in the folder Folder 1 while maintaining my working directory as it is.

I tried something like this

read.csv(paste0(setwd("./Folder 1/"),"File Another 1.csv"))

Is there a nice and elegant way of doing this. There is a reason I'm trying to do this as this folder contains a sub section of files.

Solution

  • Use file.path - setwd is for setting the directory, whereas getwd returns the path of working directory.

    setwd("C:/User/WorkDirectory")
read.csv(file.path(getwd(), "Folder 1", "Another 1.csv"))

    Or we may also use . to signify the working directory

    read.csv(file.path(".", "Folder 1", "Another 1.csv"))