R help - Mar 2003 - file.show("morley.tab") responds "NO FILE"

"An Introduction to R", Venables and Smith, Version 1.6.2 (2003-01-10)
    http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf
has in its "Appendix A: A sample session", page 81, 
   file.show("morley.tab")
I get the response
   NO FILE morley.tab

The following  "Introduction to the R Project for Statistical
Computing"
   www.itc.nl/~rossiter/teach/sstat14/ RIntro_ITC_2003022.pdf
comments on the same problem at the bottom of his page 5 and on page 6.
His solution is to enter the full path
   file.show("/usr/lib/R/library/base/data/morley.tab")
which works but depends on your system''s R.home(),
/usr/lib/R for me [my searchpaths() includes /usr/lib/R/library/base].
He then suggests the solution
   data(morley)
This works, but would force a few line changes 
in Appendix A of the document "An Introduction to R".

Venables and Smith''s succeeding example for beginners to try has
   read.table("morley.tab")
which also fails with
   cannot open file `morley.tab''

I use Debian Linux version 3.0 (woody) 
with installed R version 1.5.1,
  r-base          statistical computing language and environment
  r-base-core     core of statistical computing language and env
  r-base-dev      installation of auxiliary GNU R packages
  r-base-html     html docs for statistical computing system fun
  r-base-latex    LaTeX docs for statistical computing system fu
  r-doc-html      html manuals for statistical computing system
  r-doc-info      info manuals statistical computing system
  r-doc-pdf       pdf manuals for statistical computing system
  r-gnome         Gnome gui for statistical computing system
  r-mathlib       standalone mathematics library
  r-recommended   collection of recommended packages

Perhaps others don''t have this same  file.show("morley.tab") 
problem, but if others do have this problem, 
then this beginners'' documentation should alter a couple lines 
on page 81.



-- 
Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L   Fairfax, Virginia, USA
jameson at coost.com       http://www.coost.com
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At the top of a `A sample session'' it says

  Login, start your windowing system. You should also have the file 
  morley.tab in your working directory. If not, seek the local expert (or 
  get it yourself from the base/data subdirectory of the default R library 
  tree). If you have, proceed. 

I submit that the `problem'' is that you did not follow those
instructions.

It is deliberate that you should use a local file, as this gives a pattern
for you to use with your own data.


On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> "An Introduction to R", Venables and Smith, Version 1.6.2
(2003-01-10)
>     http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf
> has in its "Appendix A: A sample session", page 81, 
>    file.show("morley.tab")
> I get the response
>    NO FILE morley.tab
The response is platform-specific, BTW.

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Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> "An Introduction to R", Venables and Smith, Version 1.6.2
(2003-01-10)
>     http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf
> has in its "Appendix A: A sample session", page 81, 
>    file.show("morley.tab")
> I get the response
>    NO FILE morley.tab
The solution: Please read the first 8 lines (on page 80) of that 
Appendix as well.
"You should also have the file ?morley.tab? in your working directory. 
If not, seek the local expert (or get it yourself from the ?base/data? 
subdirectory of the default R library tree). If you have, proceed."

Uwe Ligges

> The following  "Introduction to the R Project for Statistical
Computing"
>    www.itc.nl/~rossiter/teach/sstat14/ RIntro_ITC_2003022.pdf
> comments on the same problem at the bottom of his page 5 and on page 6.
> His solution is to enter the full path
>    file.show("/usr/lib/R/library/base/data/morley.tab")
> which works but depends on your system''s R.home(),
> /usr/lib/R for me [my searchpaths() includes /usr/lib/R/library/base].
> He then suggests the solution
>    data(morley)
> This works, but would force a few line changes 
> in Appendix A of the document "An Introduction to R".
> 
> Venables and Smith''s succeeding example for beginners to try has
>    read.table("morley.tab")
> which also fails with
>    cannot open file `morley.tab''
> 
> I use Debian Linux version 3.0 (woody) 
> with installed R version 1.5.1,
>   r-base          statistical computing language and environment
>   r-base-core     core of statistical computing language and env
>   r-base-dev      installation of auxiliary GNU R packages
>   r-base-html     html docs for statistical computing system fun
>   r-base-latex    LaTeX docs for statistical computing system fu
>   r-doc-html      html manuals for statistical computing system
>   r-doc-info      info manuals statistical computing system
>   r-doc-pdf       pdf manuals for statistical computing system
>   r-gnome         Gnome gui for statistical computing system
>   r-mathlib       standalone mathematics library
>   r-recommended   collection of recommended packages
> 
> Perhaps others don''t have this same 
file.show("morley.tab")
> problem, but if others do have this problem, 
> then this beginners'' documentation should alter a couple lines 
> on page 81.