Setting working directory (Julia versus R)

September 24, 2018 by Kinh Nguyen

In R, you can set working directory with

setwd("~/Desktop")

But Julia does not automatically expande the tilde ~ notation

julia> cd("~/Dropbox")
ERROR: chdir ~/

You need to ask Julia to expand tilde for you with expanduser function

cd(expanduser("~/Documents/myProjs/COPD/"))

Enjoy!