how to use the here package

I’m still working on getting my head around where R thinks we work and how to tell it where my stuff lives (aka working directories). On twitter yesterday Alison Hill, Adam Gruer, Zoe Meers and Irene Steves helped me sort out my issues with here. hi #rstats friends, how do YOU use the here package? I thought I had my head around it but I'm doing something wrong. Here my markdown lives within the "markdown" folder, so I set here to the "data" folder, call read_csv(here("datafile.

where is here?

As I add new projects to my rstats portfolio and work collaboratively on projects with students the issue of working directories is becoming more and more complicated. Not really understanding how working directories and file paths actually work, I have been relying on the beginner logic… Everything will be just fine as long as you keep your datafiles in the same folder as your .rmd file via GIPHY