Thank u all for your valuable efforts........now finally I've managed to import a minitab file into R.
Accordinng to me the problem was that minitab saves a project as filename.MPJ......so this path was not valid for reading it into R.......so I had to save it as filename.MTP format.......& everything is going ok


----- Original Message ----
From: Christian A. Parker <cparker@pdx.edu>
To: kasturi bardhan <kasturibardhan@yahoo.co.in>
Sent: Saturday, 26 January, 2008 11:49:59 PM
Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] How to import a minitab data file into R

I can only assume that its not in the current working directory. to 
check this just use:

dir()

to get a list of all the files in the current working directory/folder. 
Make sure your file is in this list and make sure that you have it 
spelled correctly, R is case sensitive.

kasturi bardhan wrote:
> First of all thanks for your reply
> I used the commands as written below
> library(foreign)
> > read.mtp("SSR set1.mtp")
> and it returns with the following error message
> Error in read.mtp("SSR set1.mtp") :
>  unable to open file 'SSR set1.mtp' for reading
>
> Whereas I can see the file does exist in the home directory of R also
> So what is your suggestion in this regard....please let me know
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Christian A. Parker <cparker@pdx.edu>
> To: kasturi bardhan <kasturibardhan@yahoo.co.in>
> Cc: R-sig-teaching@r-project.org
> Sent: Saturday, 26 January, 2008 9:36:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] How to import a minitab data file into R
>
> Without seeing all of your code its difficult to diagnose but based on
> what you sent and the error message I am going to guess that you forgot
> to load the foreign package. Also it looks like you dont have the file
> extension in the path, but thats not where your error is from. Your code
> should look like this (potentially):
>
> library(foreign)
> tbl<-read.mtp(file='central.mtp')
>
> -Chris
>
> kasturi bardhan wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I am a new member of this gorup & have started learning R from a 
> couple of days ago.
> > I am facing a problem in importing a minitab data file to R.
> > .
> > I used the command read.mtp(file="central").But it returned with the 
> error message could not find function "read.mtp"
> > Please help me in this regard mentioning the proper code to be used 
> & with your valuable comments.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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