[R] R problem

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 Ko-Kang at xtra.co.nz wrote:

> You need to specify the abosulte path of the file.  Otherwise R will assume your file is in R_HOME/bin directory.

Actually, whatever you set as the working directory in the shortcut.

NDR


>
> Ko-Kang Wang
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Erik Bury
>   To: R-help at lists.R-project.org
>   Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 1:19 AM
>   Subject: [R] R problem
>
>
>   hello!! i'm starting with R and i have some big problems:when i try to take a notepad document (or word) i can't put it into R!!!!
>   i tried : read.table("nameofmyfile.dat") but it doesn't work!!!!! my computer says:error in file(file, "r"): cannot open file "nameofmyfile"
>   I think i have to save my notepad file on another location....can u help me?????
>   thank u very much
>   veerle bury
>

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