Dear David, You got several useful suggestions for what you may have done wrong. I often find that it's easier to use read.table(file.choose()) and to navigate to the file in the resulting dialog than to type the path to the file.
I hope that this helps, John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Herman, David (NIH/NIMH) > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:03 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [R] (no subject) > > 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
