[R] Uploading CSV file into R

[peter dalgaard]

On May 13, 2011, at 05:57 , Me wrote:

> Sorry if I don't know all the vocabulary. I'm taking a research methods class
> that uses R, but I'm a journalism major, so I'm not very good with a lot of
> computer jargon.
> 
> The read.csv operator didn't work. I got the following error message:
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>  cannot open file 'Downloads/UNdata_Export_20110511_130705015.csv': No such
> file or directory
> 

You need to download the file from the website to your own computer and use the name and location of that file. You can't read the file off of _my_ hard disk!

(Go to the web site, click Download and select comma separated values.)

-p

> 
> Thanks again if anyone can help.
> 
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