Hi - I am not familiar with R.  Could I ask you a quick question?

When I read a file like this, I get an error.  Not sure what I am doing
wrong.  I use a MAC.  How do I specify a full path name for a file in R?  Or
do files have to reside locally?

> KoreaAuto <- read.table(""/Users/
raviramaswamy/Documents/Rutgers/STT 586/HW1 Data.txt"")
Error: unexpected numeric constant in "KoreaAuto <-
read.table(""/Users/raviramaswamy/Documents/Rutgers/STT 586"
>

Seems like the working directory is
> getwd()
[1] "/Users/raviramaswamy"
>

so I said this and still got an error

> KoreaAuto <- read.table(/Documents/Rutgers/HW1Data)
Error: unexpected '/' in "KoreaAuto <- read.table(/"


Could someone please help me with the correct syntax?

Thanks

Ravi

    Year   AO      GNP          CP   OP
01    1974 .0022     183          2322 189
02    1975 .0024     238          2729 206
03    1976 .0027     319          3069 206
04    1977 .0035     408          2763 190
05    1978 .0050     540          2414 199
06    1979 .0064     676          2440 233
07    1980 .0065     785          2430 630
08    1981 .0069     944          2631 740
09    1982 .0078     1036         3155 740
10    1983 .0095     1171         3200 660

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