Sorry to all bothering you with a trivial question: I am using R (rw0630 for Win32) and am simply unable to read-in the *.txt data. I've tried to copy the file (prum.txt) to different directories of rw0630 but get uniformly the answer "object "prum.txt" not found". Which is the default directory for read.table() ?? Thanks! Z. Skala ++++++++++++++++++++++ Zdenek Skala e-mail: Zdenek.Skala at incoma.cz -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Zdenek Skala wrote:> > I am using R (rw0630 for Win32) and am simply unable to read-in the *.txt data. > I've tried to copy the file (prum.txt) to different directories of rw0630 but get > uniformly the answer "object "prum.txt" not found".You need to put the name of the file in quotes, i.e. R> read.table("prum.txt") If the argument is not in quotes then read.table expects the argument to be an R "object". In this case, the object would be a string containing the name of the file, so R> myfile <- "prum.txt" R> read.table(myfile) would work too.> Which is the default > directory for read.table() ??It is the working directory of R (normally the bin directory in the R home tree, but you can change this by creating a shortcut and changing the "Start in" field in the properties dialogue). Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 03:01:16PM +0100, Zdenek Skala wrote:> Sorry to all bothering you with a trivial question: > I am using R (rw0630 for Win32) and am simply unable to read-in the *.txt data. > I've tried to copy the file (prum.txt) to different directories of rw0630 but get > uniformly the answer "object "prum.txt" not found". Which is the default > directory for read.table() ??read.table("c:\\Fryderyk\\Chopin\\prum.txt") #full path, #note the double slash or read.table("c:/Fryderyk/Chopin/prum.txt") #full path, Unix like name You can also give path relative to the current directory which is set by Windows using its convention, not by R,i.e., 1) if you launch R from a Windows command console c:\Amadeus\Mozart> ....rw06330\bin\R.exe <ret> you can use something like read.table("../../Fryderyk/Chopin/prum.txt") since "current directory"=c:\Amadeus\Mozart 2) if you launch Rusing a short-cut "current directory"=../rw0630/bin or what you set in the property panel of the short-cut. g. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._