[R] trouble with reading data from excel

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, sloan jones wrote:

> I have been trying to open data that I have saved in an excel spread sheet.  I saved it as a csv.  Then I tried using the read.csv command. However, everytime I do this--
> 
> diseasedat<-read.csv("M:/sloan/R/disease/disease.csv", sep=,  header = TRUE, fill= TRUE)--
> 
> I get an error message:  
> 
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file 'M:/sloan/R/disease/disease.csv'
> 
> What am I doing wrong or what should I look for to correct this?
> 

Try using file.choose() instead of typing in your file name - read.csv()
cannot find a file with that name in that directory.

> Sloan
> 
> 

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Roger Bivand
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