[R] Importing file from Excel

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "srinivas" == srinivasa raghavan <sristatistician at yahoo.com> writes:

    srinivas> Hi, I have a basic import problem. I tried to import a comma
    srinivas> delimited "boston.csv" from C drive and gave the following
    srinivas> command at R prompt

    >> read.csv(c:\boston.csv,sep=",",dec=".",fill=TRUE)
    srinivas> Error: syntax error

    srinivas> can any one help to debugg the code.I am using R version 1.3
    srinivas> for windows

The syntax error is because you didn't quote the file name, and ":" , "\"
will give problems.
But even with quotes that wouldn't work directly: Note that "\" is the
escape character (used, e.g. in "\n" which is newline) and hence would have
to be doubled.
The `real' recommendation otoh is to use real slashes instead of windoze
ones :

     read.csv("c:/boston.csv", sep=",", dec=".", fill=TRUE)
                 ^

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