[R] Where the data file is stored?

[Keith Jewell]

You're not seeing the .Rdata file containing the data objects. Try:

list.files(getwd(),full.name=TRUE, all.files=TRUE)


"Stephen Liu" <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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----- Original Message ----

From: Alain Guillet <alain.guillet at uclouvain.be>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 5:28:32 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Where the data file is stored?

> You can find your current working directory with the getwd() function.


Hi Alain,


Thanks for your advice.


> getwd()
[1] "/home/userA"


> list.files(getwd())
 [1] "Desktop"           "Documents"         "Downloads"
 [4] "examples.desktop"  "last-packages.txt" "Music"
 [7] "myR"               "petdrug.csv"       "Pictures"
[10] "Public"            "R"                 "Templates"
[13] "Videos"


> list.files(getwd(),full.name=TRUE)
 [1] "/home/userA/Desktop"
 [2] "/home/userA/Documents"
 [3] "/home/userA/Downloads"
 [4] "/home/userA/examples.desktop"
 [5] "/home/userA/last-packages.txt"
 [6] "/home/userA/Music"
 [7] "/home/userA/myR"
 [8] "/home/userA/petdrug.csv"
 [9] "/home/userA/Pictures"
[10] "/home/userA/Public"
[11] "/home/userA/R"
[12] "/home/userA/Templates"
[13] "/home/userA/Videos"


How to show on the printout which is directory?  TIA

B.R.
Stephen L


On 12-Aug-10 11:22, Stephen Liu wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> From: Philipp Pagel<p.pagel at wzw.tum.de>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 3:54:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Where the data file is stored?
>
>> You dont't tell us what you did to "create a datafile" - to me it
>> sounds like you created an object (probably a data frame) in your R
>> workspace. If that's  the case it is stored in a file called .RData in
>> your current work directory (together with other variables in your
>> workspace). If that is not what you did please give us mre
>> information.
>
> Hi Philipp,
>
> Yes, it is "data frame".
>
> I have run the step
> write.csv .......
>
> Other advice noted.  Thanks
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
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