m within a command prompt such as R. The first is to use what is called an absolute path: this describes the full sequence of folders a file is contained in, starting from the root directory of a computer. When you right click on any file on your computer, you can look up its absolute path in the Properties. This is an example of an absolute path:</p>
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<p>C:/Users/MJS/Documents/PhD/Planning/schedule_2021.csv</p>
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<p>Relative paths describe the position of a file with respect to a re