[R] error opening connection 64bit R under win7 64bit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I see nothing that says the file you are trying to source cannot be 
opened.  I suspect it is a file mentioned in the script (that we don;t 
have).

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, daniel at labuenaestrella.com.ar wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I just installed R (2.11.1) 64bit under Windows 7 64 bit
> When trying to readin files I get the following error message:
>
>>>   source(file="C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\My
> PhD\\Modelling\\R\\Scripts\\Functions\\functions 20jan10.r")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>  cannot open file 'C:\Documents and Settings\DoHyeDan\My Documents\My
> PhD\Data\Smoothing\R\Scripts\zscore references\cdcwfa.txt': No such file
> or directory

I think that warning is the root cause of the error here, and also 
that running traceback() would be informative.

>
> The file I'm looking for is definitely exists:
>
>>>  file.exists("C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\My
> PhD\\Modelling\\R\\Scripts\\Functions\\functions 20jan10.r")
> [1] TRUE
>
> I suspect it something with windows user rights or file properties but
> am not sure what to do.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel Hayes

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