Val, please take it slow, you are missing basic stuff here.
>
> (1) Windows Explorer may hide extensions; the 'Type' column should
> read 'R file' anyway.
>
* Yes I looked at it and it only shows type. To check I downloaded
another script with R extension "test.R" and the type column shows the
exact extension(i.e., test.R).
*
>
> (2) Script files are included in your workspace with the comand source().
> Please type ?source for details.
>
> (3) You should call files with their path and extensions (in your case
> 'Rossi.R')
> I can open the script using this command,
>
* Rossi <- read.table( file.choose(),header=T)
*
*Why I can not open with this command?*
Rossi <- read.table("C:/Documents and Settings/Val/My
Documents/R_data/prd/Rossi.dat",header=T)
*David,
*You suggested to use ,
Rossi <- read.table(paste("C:/Documents and Settings/Val/My
Documents/R_data/prd", "Rossi.dat", sep="/"), header=T)
This is not working as well I got the same error message.
Any help is highly appreciated
Val
> Hope the above help,
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The working directory is
> >
> >> getwd()
> > [1] "C:/Documents and Settings/Val/My Documents"
> >
> > The data file(Rossi.dat) and the script(Rossi.R) are in
> > "C:/Documents and Settings/Val/My Documents/R_data/prd"
> >
> > How should I write to read the file?
> >
> > source(???) # what should be included here?
> >
> > Rossi <- read.table('Rossi.dat',header=T)
> >>
> >
> > I still got the same error message.
> >
> > Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > In file(file, "r") : cannot open file 'Rossi': No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Val
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David Winsemius <
> dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Val wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi User's,
> >>>
> >>> This might be a simple question but it is giving me a hard time as I am
> a
> >>> new user.
> >>> I installed R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> >>>
> >>> 1. I just copied a short script from Fox (2002) as a practice and
> wanted
> >>> to save it as Rossi.R.
> >>>
> >>
> >> How?
> >>
> >>
> >> The system saved it without complain but when I looked at using a
> windows
> >>> explorer it is not *.R file but only Rossi. Why this is happening?
> >>>
> >>
> >> If you were to include the code, we perhaps could tell you. In its
> default
> >> mode Windows may be hiding the extension from you. (Or possibly because
> R
> >> does not postpend file types and (I am now guessing here about a package
> I
> >> have not used and don't even know if you are) neither does Rcmdr.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> 2. the script and the data files are in the same working directory.
> When I
> >>> run the following script
> >>>
> >>> Rossi <- read.table('Rossi',header=T)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> No path specification. And ??? thought you said it was a script, which
> >> would have been loaded with source()
> >>
> >>
> >> Rossi[1:5,1:10]
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> But this suggests you are using it as data. ????
> >>
> >> What do you get when your type this:
> >>
> >> getwd()
> >>
> >> the working directory is > getwd()
> > [1] "C:/Documents and Settings/val/My Documents"
> >> getwd()
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Maybe if you tried (untested)... Nah ... not going to do further
> guessing.
> >> Read the posting guide and supply the missing elements.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I got the following error messages
> >>>
> >>> Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
> >>> In addition: Warning message:
> >>> In file(file, "r") : cannot open file 'Rossi': No such file
> or
> >>> directory
> >>>
> >>>> Rossi[1:5,1:10]
> >>>>
> >>> Error: object 'Rossi' not found
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for your help in advance
> >>>
> >>> Val
> >>>
> >> --
> >>
> >> David Winsemius, MD
> >> Heritage Laboratories
> >> West Hartford, CT
> >>
> >>
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