R Projects and Files in a Project

Summary

In summary, RStudio projects give you a solid workflow that will serve you well in the future:

• Create an RStudio project for each data analysis project.
• Keep data files there; we'll talk about loading them into R in data import.
  
• Keep scripts there; edit them, run them in bits or as a whole.
• Save your outputs (plots and cleaned data) there.
• Only ever use relative paths, not absolute paths.

Everything you need is in one place, and cleanly separated from all the other projects that you are working on.