Help with Google CoLab environment

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Mount Google drive

The following code assumes user has already signed into their Google account and permissions to access already set.

This first section runs Python code. Confirm runtime set to Python.

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

Expected Python output:

Mounted at /content/drive

Next, switch runtime to R. Install and load a Tidyverse package to work with Google drive.

install.packages("googledrive")
library(googledrive)

Expected R output

Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

# Confirm if package is loaded
search()

Get the name of the folder on My Drive. This example, the folder is “Colab notebooks.” Replace folder name with your folder, keeping the rest of the path.

setwd("/content/drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks")

Finally, confirm the working directory is set.

# The default working folder is '/content/drive'
getwd()

Should be good to go!