ference directory. In R, that reference directory is your working directory. When you type a relative path to open a file in R, R appends that path to the path of the working directory to get the full absolute path, which it then uses to open the file. For example, if our working directory was “Documents”, this would be the relative path to reach the same file as above:</p>
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<p>PhD/Planning/schedule_2021.csv</p>
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<p>If our working directory was “Planning”, this would be the 