[R] Specifying path to a windows server

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 19:31:22 CEST 2016


almost ...

\\\\Theserver\\mydirectory\\data.csv

## should do it


-- Bert




On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:23 AM, John Sorkin
<jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> Windows 7 (local computer)
> Windows server (server I am trying to reach)
>
> I need to read a file whose windows path is of the form
>
> \\Theserver\mydirectory\data.csv
>
> You will note that as per windows standards the server name is preceded by two backslashes.
>
> I am not sure how to specify this in R.  One usually needs to specify an escape characters in a path new which would suggest my path should be
>
>
> \\\Theserver\\mydirectory\\data.csv
>
> This does not work; the file is not found.
>
> What is the correct way to specify a path to a server
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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