[R] About choosing file

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Uwe,

> (assuming R-2.11.1)
Yes

> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE)
Enter file name: 

My problem here is ;
the file is NOT on /home/user directory.  I need to browse for it.

> list.files()
[1] "boxplot.pdf"     "Desktop"         "FourPlots01.png" "hist.png"       
[5] "jranke_cran.asc" "M-x R"           "M-x R~" 


B.R.
Stephen L






----- Original Message ----
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: R-help at r-project.org
Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 9:20:48 PM
Subject: Re: [R] About choosing file



On 26.08.2010 09:50, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> Following command only works on Windows
>> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE)
>
> It popup open a dialog box for choosing file.
>
>
> But it doesn't work on Linux (Ubuntu);
>> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE)
> Enter file name:
>
>
> Entering file name doesn't work.  Please advise.  TIA


(assuming R-2.11.1)

Why not? What happens? What is the error message? Which file did you 
specify and does
list.files()
lists the file? Please show the output.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
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