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The likely problem here is that your file isn't in the current working
directory. To avoid this problem, I often use the file.choose()
function to obtain a full path to the file, rather than typing the name
out myself.
Duncan Murdoch
On 11/7/2006 8:48 AM, Satya Pimputkar wrote:> Hello R-Team,
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> I?m a student of the University of Zurich studing Finances.
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> I just installed R for Windows (2.4.0) on my tablet pc (windows pro tablet
edition).
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> After reboot I ran the program and changed the directory to my used folder.
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> Using a .txt file named ?a.txt? and stored in the entered directory I tried
the function:
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> scan(?a.txt?) and read.table(?a.txt?)
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> Following error report encountered:
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> scann("a.txt")
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> Fehler in file(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
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> Zus?tzlich: Warning message:
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> kann Datei 'a.txt' nicht ?ffnen. Grund 'No such file or
directory'
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> Where is the problem?
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> I tried, reinstalling, turing off virus scan/firewall, run program alone
w/o other applications
> behind.
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> Please help me out, our local ?R-professionals? including the doc can?t fix
this problem
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> Thank you in advance!
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> Kind regards
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> Satya Pimputkar
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