[R] How to Import Data

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

1) You need to use sep="," which is appropriate for a CSV file.

2) You need to specify the FULL path to the file. See 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#R-can_0027t-find-my-file

3) You can use read.csv which is the read.table variant for CSV files.


For example

  a <- read.csv( file="c:/Progra~1/Docume~1/ramasamy/x111.csv" )

might work if you replace it with your full path. If you have the
_unique_ rownames in the first column, you can add the argument
"row.names=1" in the call.

Regards, Adai



On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:52 -0500, Carl Klarner wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a very new user of R.  I've spent several hours trying to import
> data, so I feel okay asking the list for help.  I had an Excel file,
> then I turned it into a "csv" file, as instructed by directions.  My
> filename is "x111.csv."  I then used the following commands to read this
> (fairly small) dataset in.  
> 
> x111 <-read.table(file='x111.csv',
> sep="",header=T,
> quote="",comment.char="",as.is=T)
> 
> I then get the following error message.
> 
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file 'x111.csv', reason 'No such file or directory'
> 
> I would imagine I'm not putting my csv file in the right location for R
> to be able to read it.  If that's the case, where should I put it?  Or
> is there something else I need to do to it first?
> Thanks for your help,
> Carl
> 
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