Open the terminal application in the Utilities folder. Select the file you want
to use in R in a Finder window and drag it to the terminal applications command
line prompt and then release the file. The absolute path of the file will be
entered in the command line of the terminal’s window. Though this absolute path
will work, relative paths are often preferred.
Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
rmsh...@me.com
> On Jan 21, 2020, at 2:02 PM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> You would also need to drop the c: as that is a DOS/Windows thing.
>
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> Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's
> Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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>
> 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.
>>
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