[R] Opening excel CSV file in R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 09.11.2011 04:42, Dan Zhou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I have everything written out. I used R-studio (same as R console
> but with an IDE) and I had no trouble calling upon and opening the csv
> file for computation.
>
> However, when I try to run my code in plain old R, it says that the
> file could not be located. Heres my code:
>
> func<- function(filename, int) {
>    Data<- read.csv("sample.csv", header = TRUE)
>    attach(Data, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
>    ...........
>    ..........
> }
>
> I made sure that sample file was in the same directory.

Which "same" directory? Have you checked getwd() before running func()?

> I even tried
> inputting the entire file location "C:\Users..."


But hopefully not that way. You need to escape backslahes as in 
"c:\\Users" or, much easiest, use forwward slahes. See the R for Windows 
FAQs.

Uwe Ligges


> Please help. Thanks
>
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