[R-SIG-Mac] I'm new to R in a Mac. How do I specify the path in read.table()?

[Parkhurst, David F.]

Thanks.  As I’ve said elsewhere, I thought I had seen in something I read that those double backslashes were required in a Mac. 

From: Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com>
Date: Monday, February 15, 2021 at 8:31 AM
To: Parkhurst, David F. <parkhurs using indiana.edu>
Cc: r-sig-mac using r-project.org <r-sig-mac using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] I'm new to R in a Mac. How do I specify the path in read.table()?
Just use forward slashes, backslashes is a Windows thing. I.e.

read.table("/Users/DFP/Desktop/Monroe319Ecoli.txt")

should do it. A generic trick is

x <- file.choose()
dd <- read.table(x)

(and then possible have a look at x)

-pd

> On 29 Jan 2021, at 21:25 , Parkhurst, David F. <parkhurs using indiana.edu> wrote:
> 
> I�ve tried for over an hour to figure this out with no luck.  I�ve moved the text file (created from excel) to the desktop to simplify the path.  If I click on the file and ask Get Info, it lists �Where� as  iCloud Drive > Desktop.  If I copy that to the clipboard and paste that into a read.table command in the R interface, it comes up as /Users/DFP/Desktop.  But if I try read.table("/Users\DFP\Desktop\Monroe319Ecoli.txt"), I get No such file or directory.  How can I get that file into a data frame?
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