[R] r noobie, reading my text file into r

[Conklin, Mike (GfK)]

When starting out I sometimes find it easier to do the following:

Ceosalary<-read.table(file.choose(),sep="\t")

This will give you a dialog box to find the file you want and you won't have to worry about getting the full path exactly right. 

Hth,

Mike

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of frankreynolds
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:01 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] r noobie, reading my text file into r

Hi everyone, this is my first time using r and I think I'm overlooking something small and I just need some help seeing it. I have a file in notepad that I need to read into r.
> ceosalary<-read.table(file="C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.csv",
> header
> = TRUE,sep="\t")
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
  cannot open file 'C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.csv': No such file or directory
> ceosalary<-read.table(file="C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.txt",
> header
> = TRUE,sep="\t")
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
  cannot open file 'C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.txt': No such file or directory

am I writing one of those incorrectly? What can I do to fix the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your time everyone!



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