[R] Import help (neophyte)

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Oct 31 19:39:10 CET 2005


On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Jeffrey Stratford wrote:

> Hi, I have no experience with R and I'm finding the manuals a bit obtuse
> and written as if I already understood R.
>
> I'm trying to import a csv file from a floppy and it's not working. The
> code I'm using is
>
> read.table("F:\GEORGIA\species_richness\SR_use.csv", sep=",", header =
> TRUE, row.names = 1)
>
> I'm assuming that this command is case sensitive so everything matches.
> Is there something I'm missing?

Yes. Your file path should be 
specified as "F:/GEORGIA/species_richness/SR_use.csv"
[or "F:\\GEORGIA\\species_richness\\SR_use.csv"]

 	-thomas




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