On Jul 25, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Riccardo G-Mail wrote: > Hi, my name is Riccardo, I'm a PhD student in Soil Science in University > of Florence (Italy), and I'm beginning to use R. > I work both in a remote server and my own Mac, and so I use > /file.path()/ function according to where I must work: > > /mainDir <- > file.path( > > #"/Volumes/comune/RICERCA/Odori/ConfrontoDHS-SPME/AnalisiR") #remote > server 1 > > #"/Volumes/pesticidi/Ricerca/Odori/ConfrontoDHS-SPME/AnalisiR") #remote > server 2 > "/Users/riccardoromoli/Documents/Università/Tesi > PhD/ConfrontoDHS-SPME/AnalisiR") my own Mac > dataDir <- > file.path(mainDir, "Dati") > workDir <- > file.path(mainDir, "report")/ > > When I use the /read.table/ function I have this error: > > /df.AREE <- read.table(file.path(dataDir, "ORIGINALI", "SPME_H2O", > "AREE.txt"), > sep = "\t", > as.is = TRUE, dec=".", > header= TRUE, fill=TRUE)[,-c(2, 5:15, 17:28, > 30:31)] > / > > *Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open this connection > In file(file, "rt") : > cannot open file '/Users/riccardoromoli/Documents/Università/Tesi > PhD/ConfrontoDHS-SPME/AnalisiR/Dati/ORIGINALI/SPME_H2O/AREE.txt': No > such file or directory* > > Do you have any suggestion? >
Well, apparently that directory doesn't exist - that's what R tells you. a) make sure you're running in the right locale (should be UTF-8 to support non-ASCII characters) b) make sure the path actually exists (use drag & drop to avoid typing mistakes) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac