[R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

[Rossouw, Ruan (RF)]

Hi Robin,
Look at ?read.csv and ?read.table
Regards,
Ruan 


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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Williams, Robin
Sent: 22 July 2008 03:25 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

Dear all,
  I appologise for cluttering up the list with such a basic question,
however I have been unable to find the answer I want (possibly through
my poor usage of the R help system).
  As I am visually impaired and using assistive technology, I think I
would prefer to use R from the terminal mode, i.e. by running rterm.exe
found in the bin directory. 
  I have managed to set my working directory, I know this as typing
getwd() returns
u:/copd/r
which is the directory I want. In this directory is a file named
InitialDataAnalysis.csv which I would like to read in to R. However, I
am simply unable to find the surely simple command to do this. Just
typing InitialDataAnalysis.csv reports "object not found" etc, as does
read.file("InitialDataAnalysis.csv") etc. I am surely making a simple
mistake? Please could someone tell me how to read this file in to the
terminal window? 
  I know the file is in the directory and in the correct format as I am
able to open it successfully in the R GUI, in this environment the file
works properly, I can subset it, make dataframes etc, but as I say I
would like to be able to do this in the terminal rather than the GUI. 
  I am new to R so please have patients with this request. 
Many thanks for any help,
Robin.   
 

Robin Williams
Met Office summer intern - Health Forecasting
robin.williams at metoffice.gov.uk 

 

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