I often find myself writing R scripts that generate a lot of output. I find it cleaner to put this output into it's own directory(s). What I've written below will check for the existence of a directory and move into it, or create the directory and then move into it. Is there a better way to approach this?
mainDir <- "c:/path/to/main/dir"
subDir <- "outputDirectory"
if (file.exists(subDir)){
setwd(file.path(mainDir, subDir))
} else {
dir.create(file.path(mainDir, subDir))
setwd(file.path(mainDir, subDir))
}