> On 7 Sep 2020, at 07:09 , Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 7 Sep 2020, at 9:31 am, Mike Feher <mfeher1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
>> 4. I tried to read in a set of dummy space-delimited data saved in an
>> absolute path on my computer, but it would not work. I tried something in
>> another path that did not have a subfolder with a space in it (I.e. I plan
>> on storing my data in a folder called “R Documents” or something similar)
>> and that didn’t work either, so I’m still wondering whether or not (a)
>> things have to be in the library location (it seems like you could
>> customize that) and (b) whether R recognizes spaces in file paths.
>>
>
> Try using file.choose() to locate files using a dialog and it will return the
> full name. Spaces shouldn’t matter provided that everything is enclosed in
> quotes. Most people don’t use absolute references. They set the working
> directory and then just use the name of the file. See under the Misc menu.
Also, how do you "read in" the data? Usually, read.table() or somesuch would be
involved, although RStudio has an "Import data" functionality.
-pd
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