You probably have not reset the directory -- go to the session tab on the R window, click and go to ?set working directory? as C Nick -------- Original Message ---------- From: WRAY NICHOLAS <nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com> To: Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74 at yahoo.com> Date: 24 April 2016 at 21:44 Subject: Re: [R] Using read.csv() to import data You probably have not reset the directory -- go to the session tab on the R window, click and go to "set working directory" as C Nick On 24 April 2016 at 21:30 Jason Hernandez via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote: I am just beginning to learn R, using _R for Dummies_ by Andrie de Vries and Joris Meys. I am using Windows 7, and RGui (64-bit) version 3.0.2. I have reached the chapter on "Getting Data Into and Out of R." But the code they use for importing data doesn't seem to be working for me. Their example is:> elements <- read.csv(file.path("f:", "elements.csv")) Since I don't have any such file, I am trying to use a file I have. I went to Excel, brought up my file titled JPH_data, and saved it as .csv (comma delineated) on my main hard drive C: Then I entered:> mammals <- read.csv(file.path("C:", "JPH_data.csv")) I got the following:Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In file(file, "rt") : cannot open file 'C:/JPH_data.csv': No such file or directory Aside from the obvious (how can it say "no such file or directory" when I just saved one such?), the "cannot open the connection" is also unexpected. What am I doing wrong here? Jason Hernandezno current affiliation [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]