Hi there,

You need the extension "txt". Try this:

a<-read.table("d:/my documents/weekly.txt", sep=" ", header=TRUE)

HTH,

Jorge



On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:43 PM, tzsmile <rz2171@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> i want to read a txt file "weekly". this file is in d:/my documents
> i tried the following
>  a<-read.table("d:/my documents/weekly", sep=" ", header=TRUE)
> but get the following error:
> Error in open.connection(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file 'd:/my documents/weekly', reason 'No such file or
> directory' in: open.connection(file, "r")
> why?
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