[R] Importing file from Excel

[BXC (Bendix Carstensen)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: srinivasa raghavan [mailto:sristatistician at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 27. august 2001 08:26
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Importing file from Excel
> 
> 
> 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

You need

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

Best wishes, 
Bendix

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