You would also need to drop the c: as that is a DOS/Windows thing. -- Kevin E. Thorpe Head of Biostatistics, Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.3016
On 2020-01-21, 1:26 PM, "R-help on behalf of James Spottiswoode" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of ja...@jsasoc.com> wrote: OSX is based on BSD UNIX so paths use the forward slash as separator, e.g. temps <- read.table("c:/Users/DFP/Documents/ah/house/HouseTemps.txt",header=T,row.names=1) Best James > On Jan 21, 2020, at 9:20 AM, David <parkh...@indiana.edu> wrote: > > I moved to a mac a few months ago after years in windows, and I'm still learning basics. I'm wanting to create a data frame based on a text file called HouseTemps.txt. That's a file within one called house which is within one called ah. That may further be in one called Documents. I tried various lines like: > > temps <- read.table("c:\\Users\\DFP\\Documents\\ah\\house\\HouseTemps.txt",header=T,row.names=1) > > based on my windows DOS experience, but nothing I try works. So my question is, what do complete file names look like in a mac? > > I tried Apple support, but they couldn't help me with R. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.