R-beta: Read_Table?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> 
> 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=",")

That's right. Same as in e.g. Paradox, and other programs with C-style
string syntax. Rotating the backslashes 90 degrees ("D:/Rstat/...")
into UNIX style names also works.

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