[R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading data file in Mac--How do you specify path name

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Nov 5 03:13:35 CET 2009


On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Ali S wrote:

> I have used R in Windows, but am now trying it on a Mac. I am having  
> problems loading my data as I am not sure how the path names work.  
> Here is what I have tried and am getting errors with:
>
>
> sfs2<-read.delim(“/Users/fj/Documents/Data/Analysis/student2.txt",  
> header
> = TRUE, sep = "\t")

I've already posted an example of "works" on the GUI version, but this  
is showing up as unmatched double-quotes on my Mail.app reader. All I  
can say is "death to smart-quotes", a programming abomination if I  
ever saw one.

-- 
David
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT



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