tzsmile wrote: > i want to read a txt file "weekly". this file is in d:/my documents > i tried the following > a<-read.table("d:/my documents/weekly", sep=" ", header=TRUE) > but get the following error: > Error in open.connection(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open file 'd:/my documents/weekly', reason 'No such file or > directory' in: open.connection(file, "r") > why? > Perhaps it has a filename extension, which Microsoft in their infinite wisdom is suppressing?
The easiest way to open a file in windows is to use file.choose() in place of a specification of the filename. It will return a correct filename, which read.table can use, i.e. read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) or f <- file.choose() read.table(f, header=TRUE) Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.