1.4 The R workspace

The workspace refers to a R working environment and the collection of objects that have been created by the user. A session refers to an instance of a workspace. In a session you populate your workspace with a collection of objects and functions. A session can be saved, this means that you can save the workspace content so that the next time that you use R you can have all of the information loaded and already available.

Session and workspace concepts are best understood within an environment such as RStudio.