Hello!
It just is not able to find the file as the error message says.
You can check if you are specified the right directory path using dir.
?dir
dir("/Desktop/work/")
I gues you are not.
If you are specifying the full path, precede it with the drive name c:/
Eryk
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On 7/14/2004 at 10:02 AM Herman, David (NIH/NIMH) wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>> I'm new to R, and I'm having trouble importing a text file
>>>(I'm
>>>on Windows XP)
>>>
>>>> m <- read.table("/Desktop/work/128_L")
>>>Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
>>>In addition: Warning message:
>>>cannot open file `/Desktop/work/128_L'
>>>
>>>
>>>do you know why this isn't working? All I have is a bunch of text files,
>>>each with a single column of about 30,000 rows.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
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