Practical Predictive Analytics

The R console

Now that we have created a project, let us take a look at the R Console window. Click on the window marked Console. All console commands are issued by typing your command following the command prompt >, and then pressing Enter. I will just illustrate three commands that will help you answer the questions "Which project am I on?", and "What files do I have in my folders?"

1. getwd(): The getwd() command is very important since it will always tell you which directory you are in. Since we just created a new project, we expect that we will be pointing to the directory we just created, right? To double check, switch over to the console, ...