R help - Apr 1998 - R-beta: Read_Table?

Hello All !
Can anybody help me with simple question, please? I have tried to input some
data to R and I use the read.table function. The exactly form that I type was:
>  test1 <-
read.table("D:\Rstat\Work\Abt.data",header=T,sep=",")
I've got the response from R:

Error: "scan" can't open file

The file that I specify above "Abt.data" is a standard ASCII table
file with
names of fields in the first line and data below. The beginning of the file
looks like:

"Open","High","Low","Close","Volume"
29.500,29.750,28.625,28.875,1269000
28.875,29.750,28.625,29.500,977300
29.750,30.625,29.625,30.125,2894100

I am new to R-program. It seems that I've done very simple mistake in my
first
attempts. Please, help me with that or give me any  references where I can get
the answer. I use Windows 95 OS and follow instruction in "Notes on R"
by Bill
Venables & Dave Smith.
Thanks a lot!
Sergey   
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Kryp33 <Kryp33 at aol.com> writes:
> Can anybody help me with simple question, please? I have tried to input
some
> data to R and I use the read.table function. The exactly form that I type
was:
> 
> >  test1 <-
read.table("D:\Rstat\Work\Abt.data",header=T,sep=",")
> 
> I've got the response from R:
> 
> Error: "scan" can't open file
R is having trouble with the file name.  I think you may need to
escape the backslashes in R strings.  That is, you would write two
backslashes in the file name wherever you have one now.  It would look
like
      
read.table("D:\\Rstat\\Work\\Abt.data",header=T,sep=",")
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