Not work how? You need to tell us what kind of errors you see, otherwise, we
can only guess.
I'd lose the file() construct. It sets up a connection object, which can be
less than useful when read.table reads the file several time in order to
decipher the column structure of the file.
So plain
filepath1 <- "/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R
Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data"
should be OK, provided that the file actually exists. In particular, check that
the space in "R Documents" really is a space and not something that just looks
like a space (no-break space is a common culprit).
If you can read the file, but it comes out weird, then you need to diddle the
arguments to read.table, e.g.
> filepath <- "~/tmp/R files/test.data"
> read.table(filepath)
V1 V2
1 x y
2 1 2
3 3 7
4 9 13
> read.table(filepath, header=TRUE)
x y
1 1 2
2 3 7
3 9 13
-pd
> On 8 Sep 2020, at 00:04 , Mike Feher <mfeher1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Here is a snippet of the code I was trying to start with:
>
> filepath1 <- file("/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R
> Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data")
> filepath1
> TotalCasesJones <- read.table(filepath1)
>
> This definitely did not work for me.
>
> Mike
>
> On September 7, 2020 at 3:50:19 AM, peter dalgaard (pda...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> --
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>> Office: A 4.23
>> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
--
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
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