[R] Question about compatibility

[Patrick Burns]

If you are anything like me, then the main
thing that you could do to win the game is
to type the name of the file correctly.

Given that is a near impossibility for me,
when I'm on Windows I use 'file.choose' to
get the correct name.  Your command would
look like:

example=read.table(file=file.choose(), header=TRUE,sep=",")

The other likely problem is that you and
R are not agreeing on what the working
directory is.  You can see what R thinks it
is by typing:

getwd()

You can change what it thinks it is with
the 'setwd' function (or via the menu --
the file menu in Rgui or session menu in
RStudio).

Welcome to the R world.

Pat


On 23/11/2013 16:49, Juan Manuel Reyes S wrote:
> Dear R- project
>
> I am beginning to work in R. When I was trying to read data for external
> files with command read.table  in R, R was reporting me:
>
>   example=read.table(file="example.text", header=TRUE,sep=",")
>
> Error in file(file, "rt") : It is not posible to open connection
> Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
> In file(file, "rt") :
>   It is not posible to open the file  'example.text': No such file or
> directory
>
> I am using office 365 and my computer has Windows 8.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thank you members of R- project
>
> Juan Manuel
>
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