[R] trouble getting R program to open a data file

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Paul Yoder <paul.yoder at vanderbilt.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 	We've written an R program to conduct a series of analyses on a data file
> that is a comma separated value file. At one time it worked, but every
> since having down loaded the new version of R, I'm getting the following:
> 
> Cannot open c:windowsdesktopslope.csv
> 
> 
> What I've asked the program to do is to open a datafile using the following: 
> 
> DataFile<- 'c:\windows\desktop\slope.csv' 
> 
>  So it is clearly stripping the "\" from the path. I've tried using "/" to
> no avail. Any suggestions?

"/" should work, or "\\" -- if the file is actually there, of course.

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