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This repo is designed to help me replicate/troubleshoot problems I have been having with code that uses map and read_excel to  read in several .xlsx files, add a filename variable to each. The data folder contains dummy data. 

The code is in an Rmd document and works when the .Rmd is located within the data folder (map_readexcel_in_data_folder.Rmd). But when I try and run the same code outside of the data folder (map_readexcel_in_project_folder.Rmd), it throws an error.

Error: `path` does not exist: ‘fruitdata1.xlsx’

It definitely smells like a project/filepath/here::here problem, but I can't work it out. 


UPDATE: it was a smelly path problem but thanks to Jenny Bryan I now know lots more about paths. Check out the many solutions here: 

https://jenrichmond.github.io/map_excel_reprex/