[R] Fwd: Re: read.table (Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Folks,

This two FAQs:

FAQ Q7.8
rw-FAQ Q2.16

Referring enquirers to the FAQs allows readers to see the full arguments 
rather than getting partial info into the list archives.

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:

> or use forward slashes, exactly the same as in Unix.  This has the advantage
> of being portable, especially if you make it relative to a starting directory.
>
> read.table("c:/a/b/c.dat")
> read.table("c:\\a\\b\\c.dat")
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 09:42:03 +0800
>> From: ronggui <ronggui.huang at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [R] read.table (Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection)
>> To: "David.Lowery at csiro.au" <David.Lowery at csiro.au>
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>
>> I guess you use R under windows,then use \\ instead of \.
>>
>> or use file.choose() to choose the file directly.
>>
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