[R] Error in edit(name,file,title,editor)

[David Epstein]

Thanks. The file didn't exist at the time I tried "edit", and that  
was my error.
David

On 20 Jul, 2008, at 12:44, jim holtman wrote:

> Make sure you are in the right directory; you can also use the full
> path names.  It is basically saying it can not find the file.  Do
> 'list.files()' to see what is addressable in whatever directory you
> are in.
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:19 AM, David Epstein
> <David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Can anyone help me with the following attempt to use an external  
>> editor from
>> within R
>>
>>> vi(file="p286.R")
>> Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to  
>> read
>>> edit(file="p286.R")
>> Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to  
>> read
>>
>> I have only recently re-started trying to learn R. (I tried before  
>> but
>> failed.)
>> I am working with a Mac MacOsX 10.4.11. I have R 2.7.1 GUI 1.25  
>> (5166) which
>> is the Cocoa version of R.
>> I have been reading Peter Dalgaard's book, which is very helpful,  
>> and I have
>> not met any errors so far, so I don't understand why I should  
>> suddenly hit
>> this one.
>>
>> Since "edit" and "vi" appear to be in the utils package, I did
>>> library(utils)
>> to which I got a null response.
>>
>> I have searched the R-help-archives for the error message, and  
>> have not
>> found it.
>>
>> I suppose I could use the function source(), but I haven't tried  
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> David Epstein
>>
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