Performs relative changes of the working directory. Calling cd("..") moves one level up in the hierarchy whereas cd("folder_name") moves one level down to the designated folder.
cd(x)cd(x) returns the new working directory.
: A character string corresponding to target directory or "..".
Roland Pfister, Markus Janczyk
cd is designed as an equivalent to the DOS command. Contrary to the common use of cd, however, this function does not take absolute paths as input. Use setwd instead to navigate to an absulte path.
## Create temporary folder
dir.create("a_test_dir")
## Navigate into the new folder...
cd("a_test_dir")
## ... and back again
cd("..")
## Remove temporary folder
unlink("a_test_dir",recursive=TRUE)
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