... and in addition see ?file.choose for an interactive way to choose files that may be easier and/or help you to diagnose your problems.
Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:13 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > This is R-help, not RStudio-help, nor is it "Analyzing Baseball > Data"-help, which means you cannot assume we know anything about what you > are don't unless you tell us. However, it turns out that neither R nor > RStudio are likely to be at fault here... it is up to you to keep track of > which directory is the current directory (?getwd) and to insure that the > files you want to access are in the directories where you are looking for > them (a sub-directory called data within your current directory). > > Note that if you double-click on a file from most file manager windows, > and that opens R or RStudio, the file manager will set the current > directory conveniently to where the file is for you. For RGui (on-topic > here), that file could be an empty start.RData file. For RStudio (not > really on-topic here) that is usually a YourProject.Rproj file. But we > don't know what files or sub-directories you have to work with, or how you > are starting RStudio. > > Do read the Posting Guide and try to clarify your questions with R code > and responses from R for best results on this mailing list. > > On March 16, 2020 3:35:36 PM PDT, Phillip Heinrich <herd_...@cox.net> > wrote: > >Can’t get past first step of Chapter 7 page 164. > > > >Opened a new RStudio window. Loaded tidyverse and keyed in > >library(tidyverse) which of course includes dplyr. The working > >directory is: C:/Users/Owner/Documents. > > > >Then keyed in: db <- src_sqlite(“data/pitchrx.sqlite”,create=TRUE) > > > >And got the following error: Error: Could not connect to database: > > unable to open database file > > > >Googled everything I could think of to find the sqlite function and the > >pitchrx.sqlite empty data base. Can someone give me some direction? > > > >I wondering if I have configured RStudio incorrectly. Why doesn’t my > >by RStudio point to the correct data file? > > > > > > > > > > [[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. > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.