Thor/Ben

Mac's use forward slashes for paths to files. You could probably have figured this out by reading the OSX FAQ's, but here goes.

If your .csv file is in a folder called Rstuff in your Documents folder, you would use

fr <- read.csv("Users/username/Documents/Rstuff/file.csv")

in the above code, username is your username for your home directory - if you don't know it, look in the finder at the name for the little house on the left.

You can also shorten this with

fr<-read.csv("~/Documents/Rstuff/file.csv")

where the "~" is shorthand for your home directory.

Hope this helps.

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On Monday, 2 May 2011 at 14:33, Ben Bolker wrote: 
> On 05/02/2011 09:28 AM, Thor Jensen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am unable to write a pathway to .csv files saved on my computer. I
> > can get this to work on a windows machine, but the mac returns a
> > message saying the file does not exist. 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"
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > Thor
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
>  Try working your way to the file interactively within R using
> 
> (fn <- file.choose())
> 
>  and see what R thinks the file is really called.
> 
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