I do not use these functions myself.  But, why don't you do a little test
on some paths that you can control.  Put the same files in directories with
and without spaces and see if you can get the functions to work.

Jean


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lane, Michael <mflane@odu.edu> wrote:

> This seems like a very basic question so I have searched the FAQ site,
> several manuals, and the R-Seek site as well as Googling for an answer but
> can't seem to come up with one. I am trying to import an Excel file that
> resides on a University network.  The path name of the file is to a network
> drive and includes blank spaces (e.g. K:/science/next directory
> science2/mydata/). The setwd() works and I am able to actually see the
> files in the directory on the network but for some reason the RODBC, GDATA
> and  XlsReadWrite functions do not seem to be able to find the files.  Does
> anyone know if these functions able to read path names with blank spaces?
> The available documentation doesn't seem to indicate one way or another.
> Note that I can't change the path name because they are setup by University
> network administrators.   Obviously it may be some sort of syntax error
> with my coding of the functions (I'm in the process of learning R) but I am
> not going to ask for help with that a!
>  nd I would like to eliminate the possibility that it is simply the path
> names. I have not tried conversion to .csv and then importing which I would
> prefer not to do. Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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