Hi Thor, Open a terminal window, drag the .csv file to that window, copy the path that will appear in that terminal into your read.csv command. Michael Kubovy On May 2, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Thor Jensen wrote: > Any tips on how to import data on mac's? For example, the below line was unsuccesful. read.csv(file="Macintosh HD:Users:ThorJ:Desktop:heightweight.csv"