[R] Importing file from Excel

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, srinivasa raghavan wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have a basic import problem. I tried to import a
> comma delimited "boston.csv" from C drive and gave the
> following command at R prompt
>
> >read.csv(c:\boston.csv,sep=",",dec=".",fill=TRUE)
> Error: syntax error
>
> can any one help to debugg the code.I am using R
> version 1.3 for windows
(1.3.0 probably.)

You need to

1) quote character strings
2) use \\ for \.

E.g.

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

and as all the other arguments are the defaults, just

read.csv("c:\\boston.csv")

is equivalent.


>
> with regards
>
> srinivas
>
>
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