[R] Importing file from Excel

[Philippe Grosjean]

>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




You should use:
>read.csv("c:/boston.csv")

Best regards,

Philippe Grosjean


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