Hi Uwe, > (assuming R-2.11.1) Yes
> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) Enter file name: My problem here is ; the file is NOT on /home/user directory. I need to browse for it. > list.files() [1] "boxplot.pdf" "Desktop" "FourPlots01.png" "hist.png" [5] "jranke_cran.asc" "M-x R" "M-x R~" B.R. Stephen L ----- Original Message ---- From: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> Cc: R-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 9:20:48 PM Subject: Re: [R] About choosing file On 26.08.2010 09:50, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Following command only works on Windows >> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) > > It popup open a dialog box for choosing file. > > > But it doesn't work on Linux (Ubuntu); >> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) > Enter file name: > > > Entering file name doesn't work. Please advise. TIA (assuming R-2.11.1) Why not? What happens? What is the error message? Which file did you specify and does list.files() lists the file? Please show the output. Best, Uwe Ligges > > B.R. > Stephen L > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.