Not work how? You need to tell us what kind of errors you see, otherwise, we can only guess.
I'd lose the file() construct. It sets up a connection object, which can be less than useful when read.table reads the file several time in order to decipher the column structure of the file. So plain filepath1 <- "/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data" should be OK, provided that the file actually exists. In particular, check that the space in "R Documents" really is a space and not something that just looks like a space (no-break space is a common culprit). If you can read the file, but it comes out weird, then you need to diddle the arguments to read.table, e.g. > filepath <- "~/tmp/R files/test.data" > read.table(filepath) V1 V2 1 x y 2 1 2 3 3 7 4 9 13 > read.table(filepath, header=TRUE) x y 1 1 2 2 3 7 3 9 13 -pd > On 8 Sep 2020, at 00:04 , Mike Feher <mfeher1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Here is a snippet of the code I was trying to start with: > > filepath1 <- file("/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R > Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data") > filepath1 > TotalCasesJones <- read.table(filepath1) > > This definitely did not work for me. > > Mike > > On September 7, 2020 at 3:50:19 AM, peter dalgaard (pda...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> >> >> > On 7 Sep 2020, at 07:09 , Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au> wrote: >> > >> >> On 7 Sep 2020, at 9:31 am, Mike Feher <mfeher1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> [snip] >> >> 4. I tried to read in a set of dummy space-delimited data saved in an >> >> absolute path on my computer, but it would not work. I tried something in >> >> another path that did not have a subfolder with a space in it (I.e. I >> >> plan >> >> on storing my data in a folder called “R Documents” or something similar) >> >> and that didn’t work either, so I’m still wondering whether or not (a) >> >> things have to be in the library location (it seems like you could >> >> customize that) and (b) whether R recognizes spaces in file paths. >> >> >> > >> > Try using file.choose() to locate files using a dialog and it will return >> > the full name. Spaces shouldn’t matter provided that everything is >> > enclosed in quotes. Most people don’t use absolute references. They set >> > the working directory and then just use the name of the file. See under >> > the Misc menu. >> >> Also, how do you "read in" the data? Usually, read.table() or somesuch would >> be involved, although RStudio has an "Import data" functionality. >> >> -pd >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Office: A 4.23 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac