[R-SIG-Mac] Starting problem with R

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 3, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Jonas Steenholdt Sørensen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm a university student study Biology and in class we use Minitab and Excel for our stats work. Since I would like to work from home I choose R and know what a program some Biologist later on use more often. 
> 
> I have been reading some of the good guiding I could find online. Put none of them help me with one special problem. I have been trying to import all sort of data to R without any success. Trying with read.table, read.csv, read.xls and they are all giving a response of object not found or No such file or directory. 
> I have put my WD to "users/jonasssrensen/Documents/R where I have put my test data in. 
> 

You're probably missing a leading slash. Anyway, it's much easier to just drop the file name from Finder or to use file.choose() instead of trying to type the file name. Also note that there is file name completion in R that may help (just hit <Tab> like in the shell).

Cheers,
Simon


> I run R on a macBook with Lion.
> 
> I not sure if I need to install some package, apps or change some setups. Hope someone out there can help me.
> 
> Best
> Jonas
> 
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