[R] Cannot read or write to file in Linux Ubuntu

[John Kane]

"Relative paths are not a mystery nor are they solely an aspect of linux.
> They are in fact the norm in DOS and Windows as well as in Linux or
> any other file system that use a "tree" structure."

Oh, is that all!   I just never thought of that behaviour as 'relative paths' just as something that one had to take into account in DOS.

I may take a look at R Studio but so far  I have been comfortable with a text editor and either RGUI or a terminal.

thanks

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jwd at surewest.net
> Sent: Fri, 4 May 2012 18:35:31 -0700
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Cannot read or write to file in Linux Ubuntu
> 
> On Thu, 3 May 2012 10:50:46 -0800
> John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Jeff and Sarah.
>> 
>> I was thinking mainly of using the base path and paste routine which
>> is something I do in Windows
>> 
>> It will take me a while to figrue out relative paths.
>> 
> Relative paths are not a mystery nor are they solely an aspect of linux.
> They are in fact the norm in DOS and Windows as well as in Linux or
> any other file system that use a "tree" structure. Since Windows
> constrains you to a graphic interface, when using the file manager, you
> see the default use of relative paths without recognizing the
> behaviour.
> 
> When opening or saving a file in Windows, the system will often offer
> you the choice of 'save, or 'save as' and if you mistakenly use 'save'
> from the wrong working directory, you may well have a files written
> other than where you thought it was.  This problem is so common that
> Windows users tend to take it in stride and have developed habits that
> limit the aggravation.  You do not have those habits for Linux yet.
> 
> Until you are more comfortable in Linux you might want to run RStudio
> while using R.  The learning curve of a new OS as well as
> different details in simply using the computer interface is quite
> challenging.
> 
> JWDougherty
> 
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