R Explained for Excel Users: What is a Directory?

Like Excel, R can read in files and create new files based on your commands.

R will assume these files will be read from and written to your directory. 

This is a common stumbling block for new R users, but pretty easy to understand with a couple of basic functions.

In the below example, I created a simple vector and then exported it from R using write.table( ):

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