R Package Assignment - Cannot Change Working Directory

[lindaalvarez]

Hello, I am unfortunately getting stuck when trying to set my working directory for the monty-hall-pkg. I've tried a couple different ways such as creating a folder as well as having the pkg in my downloads but I keep getting an error that I cannot change my wd. @castower

[lecy]

Note /Users/... vs /users/...

You might try it without the C: as well?

[lindaalvarez]

I went ahead and tried both and no luck.

[lindaalvarez]

so i tried to double check that my pathway exists and I keep getting false. @castower

[lecy]

Here is some code to help you identify your current location (default working directory), navigate to other directories, create folders, and check which files and folders exist within each folder.

######################################
######################################     CURRENT FOLDER
######################################

getwd()
[1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents"

dir()   # LIST FILES IN DIRECTORY

# [1] "AWS"                                                       
# [2] "AWS-NCCS-EFILE.csv"  
# [3] "bmf"
# [4] "2023-05-POL-ORGS-SCHED-A.csv"                              
# [5] "2023-05-POL-ORGS-SCHED-B.csv"                              
# [6] "2023-05-POL-ORGS-SCHED-D.csv"

######################################
######################################     BASIC NAVIGATION
######################################

# NOTE DIFFERENCE BETWEEEN FOLDERS AND FILES

setwd( "AWS-NCCS-EFILE.csv" )     # FILES HAVE EXTENSIONS

# > Error in setwd( "AWS-NCCS-EFILE.csv" ) : cannot change working directory

setwd( "AWS" )      # FOLDERS DO NOT

getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents/AWS"

setwd( ".." )     # RETURN TO PARENT FOLDER
getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents"

setwd( "bmf" )

getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents/bmf"

dir()
# [1] "BMF-2022-01-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv" "BMF-2022-08-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv"
# [3] "BMF-LABELED-TEMP.rds"               "BMF_TAX_EXEMPT_PURP.csv"           
# [5] "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.1.csv"               "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.2.csv"              

######################################
######################################     CREATE NEW FOLDERS
######################################

dir()
# [1] "BMF-2022-01-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv" "BMF-2022-08-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv"
# [3] "BMF-LABELED-TEMP.rds"               "BMF_TAX_EXEMPT_PURP.csv"           
# [5] "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.1.csv"               "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.2.csv"              

setwd( "TEST" )
# > Error in setwd( "TEST" ) : cannot change working directory

dir.create( "TEST" ) 
dir()

# [1] "BMF-2022-01-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv" "BMF-2022-08-501CX-NONPROFIT-PX.csv"
# [3] "BMF-LABELED-TEMP.rds"               "BMF_TAX_EXEMPT_PURP.csv"           
# [5] "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.1.csv"               "BMF_UNIFIED_V1.2.csv"                           
# [7] "TEST"

setwd( "TEST" )

getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents/bmf/TEST"

dir()  # EMPTY FOLDER
# character(0)

######################################
######################################     RELATIVE NAVIGATION 
######################################

getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents/bmf/TEST"

setwd( "../.." )  # GO UP TWO LEVELS 
getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents"

setwd( "bmf/TEST" )  # GO DOWN TWO LEVELS (FOLDER IN A FOLDER)
getwd()
# [1] "C:/Users/lecy/Documents/bmf/TEST"

[lindaalvarez]

@castower I was able to move forward and now am in the part where I am trying to finish the R file with documenting the instructions. When I use the devtools::document() command I get a series of errors.

devtools::document() ℹ Updating montyhall documentation ℹ Loading montyhall Writing 'create_game.Rd' Warning message: ── Conflicts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── montyhall conflicts ── ✖ change_door masks montyhall::change_door(). ✖ create_game masks montyhall::create_game(). ✖ open_goat_door masks montyhall::open_goat_door(). ✖ select_door masks montyhall::select_door(). ℹ Did you accidentally source a file rather than using load_all()? Run rm(list = c("change_door", "create_game", "open_goat_door", "select_door")) to remove the conflicts. Not quite sure how to move forward from this, I'm afraid that if I remove these words it will mess up the code of the game.

[castower]

Hello @lindaalvarez ,

A couple of things to check:

1. Is your .R file stored in your montyhall/R folder?
2. Is the formatting of the file the same as the template?
3. Is your working directory set to montyhall?

[lindaalvarez]

I believe I have the file in the correct folder, I followed the instructions. I retraced my steps and started over but I did notice that whenever I run the devtools::document() command a new folder gets created with all of the error terms created. I don't know what to do there. @castower

Everything was working up until I started editing the r script to fill the instructions, after I filled them in is when I got those errors and that random folder.

[castower]

@lindaalvarez

The output of getwd() before you run devtools::document() indicates that you're inside of the R subfolder of montyhall.

You'll need to change the directory to go up one folder level to the montyhall folder and then run the devtools::document() code.

[castower]

@lindaalvarez

You may have lingering files from the previous attempt at running document().

I would suggest deleting those files and then trying again.

[lindaalvarez]

Thank you so much for your help!

[castower]

You're welcome @lindaalvarez! Were you able to resolve your installation errors?

[castower]

@lindaalvarez ,

Your repo name is MontyHall3Doors vs MontyHall so you'll need to update the package name to install.

[lindaalvarez]

@castower As soon as I sent the message I saw the error, my apologies! I am currently waiting for the downloading the finish and hopefully finally be done!

[castower]

Great @lindaalvarez !

[lindaalvarez]

@castower I think I made an error when waiting for it to upload, not sure how to go from here

[lindaalvarez]

I actually fixed the code and it is now running again @castower I've just been waiting for about 10 minutes for it to finish loading, I hope that is to be expected