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@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ getwd()
 #> [1] "/Users/hadley/Documents/r4ds/r4ds"
 ```
 
-As a beginning R user, it's OK to let your working direction be your home directory, documents directory, or any other weird directory on your computer.
+As a beginning R user, it's OK to let your working directory be your home directory, documents directory, or any other weird directory on your computer.
 But you're nine chapters into this book, and you're no longer a rank beginner.
 Very soon now you should evolve to organizing your projects into directories and, when working on a project, set R's working directory to the associated directory.