[R] can't read a file

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 5, 2013, at 10:14 AM, John Kane wrote:

> No you don't need another format. read.table is the same on any operating system.
> 
> What is your actual command and what error messages if any?
> 
> It may be a path problem. 
> 

On a Mac you can click-hold-drag a file from the Finder window to the R console. The path and file name will be constructed. You just need to put quotes around it to construct an appropriate argument to the 'file= ' parameter.

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David.
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: clemence.germaine at gmail.com
>> Sent: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:31:11 +0200
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] can't read a file
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> It's the first time I use R on mac, before I used on Windows, so I can't
>> have my data when I have the function : read.table, my file is maned :
>> data1.txt
>> Do I use another format for my file?
>> 
>> And when I trie list.file I have this answer : character(0) but I know
>> where my file is on my computer.
>> 
>> If anybody can help me?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Clémence
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David Winsemius
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