Make sure you are in the right directory; you can also use the full
path names. It is basically saying it can not find the file. Do
'list.files()' to see what is addressable in whatever directory you
are in.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:19 AM, David Epstein
<David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:> Can anyone help me with the following attempt to use an external editor
from
> within R
>
>> vi(file="p286.R")
> Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read
>> edit(file="p286.R")
> Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read
>
> I have only recently re-started trying to learn R. (I tried before but
> failed.)
> I am working with a Mac MacOsX 10.4.11. I have R 2.7.1 GUI 1.25 (5166)
which
> is the Cocoa version of R.
> I have been reading Peter Dalgaard's book, which is very helpful, and I
have
> not met any errors so far, so I don't understand why I should suddenly
hit
> this one.
>
> Since "edit" and "vi" appear to be in the utils
package, I did
>> library(utils)
> to which I got a null response.
>
> I have searched the R-help-archives for the error message, and have not
> found it.
>
> I suppose I could use the function source(), but I haven't tried this.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> David Epstein
>
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