working directory with spaces in R [closed]

Question

I am having the problem that when I use setwd() with a path that includes spaces (e.g. setwd("C:/Users/Name/My Documents/") I get the error message

"cannot change working directory"

I am a bit suprised that I did not find much about this here or on google - so it must either be a rare error or everyone knows about it I reckon. Either way, is there a why to work around it?

I am using Windows 7 and R version 3.0.2.

Answer 1

R cannot setwd into a directory that it doesn't have 'x' (execute) permission for.

Answer 2

This should work, but if really needed, you can use the function shortPathName.

> shortPathName("C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/")
[1] "C:\\PROGRA~2\\Adobe\\"