here() and ggsave "I will set your computer on fire" - Why?

[@DM-py7pj]

Your use of zoom is fantastic. What software are you using, please?

[@CradleToGraveR]

Final Cot Pro. I use the YT Zoom plugin a lot. That’s probably it.

[@mphandejohn]

Very helpful

[@mikegherbal2260]

I am having this error "Error in here("Data Analyst/R") : could not find function "here" is there any specific package to install to use the function "here"?

[@eduardozanette9236]

What is the answer to the video title, after all?

[@CradleToGraveR]

That's funny that I forgot to answer this. Check out this blog post here: malco.io/2018/11/05/why-should-i-use-the-here-package-when-i-m-already-using-projects/ Basically: If the first line of your R script is setwd("C:\Users\jenny\path\that\only\I\have") "I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE 🔥." If the first line of your R script is rm(list = ls()) "I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE 🔥." Source 2: twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/940021008764846080

[@CanDoSo_org]

Hi, I really don't get why here("data". "raw", "my_data.csv") is better than "data/raw/blah.csv". As for me, the latter is much simpler and more intuitive.

[@MarkGingrass]

Works fine for a Unix based system. Try that code on Windows and it won't work. Your forward slashes would need to be back slashes. Does that make sense?

[@CradleToGraveR]

Sometimes you may change your working directory using setwd(). The here() package doesn't care that you changed it. It knows the projects path and maintains it. One goal of most programming languages is to have consistency across platforms. The other comment I made about "/" vs "\" is yet another example of how here() is useful. If you share your code with a Windows user and you don't use the here() methods, the Windows user will have to replace you path "data/raw/blah.csv" with "data aw\blah.csv." It doesn't seem like much, but multiply that by hundreds of lines of code. Or, if a beginner tries to run your code they may give up quickly because it simply won't run because the forward/backwards slash issue. It's just a pain.

[@CanDoSo_org]

@@CradleToGraveR Thanks, man. That makes sense.