[R] Fwd: Re: Using read.csv() to import data

[WRAY NICHOLAS]

You probably have not reset the directory  -- go to the session tab on the R
window, click and go to “set working directory” as C

Nick

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From: WRAY NICHOLAS <nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com>
To: Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74 at yahoo.com>
Date: 24 April 2016 at 21:44
Subject: Re: [R] Using read.csv() to import data


You probably have not reset the directory  -- go to the session tab on the R
window, click and go to "set working directory" as C

Nick



On 24 April 2016 at 21:30 Jason Hernandez via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
wrote:


I am just beginning to learn R, using _R for Dummies_ by Andrie de Vries and
Joris Meys. I am using Windows 7, and RGui (64-bit) version 3.0.2. I have
reached the chapter on "Getting Data Into and Out of R." But the code they use
for importing data doesn't seem to be working for me.

Their example is:> elements <- read.csv(file.path("f:", "elements.csv"))
Since I don't have any such file, I am trying to use a file I have. I went to
Excel, brought up my file titled JPH_data, and saved it as .csv (comma
delineated) on my main hard drive C:

Then I entered:>  mammals <- read.csv(file.path("C:", "JPH_data.csv"))
I got the following:Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
  cannot open file 'C:/JPH_data.csv': No such file or directory
Aside from the obvious (how can it say "no such file or directory" when I just
saved one such?), the "cannot open the connection" is also unexpected. What am I
doing wrong here?
Jason Hernandezno current affiliation

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