Problem with read.table and scan

The R version is 1.3.1 and the following is an example of the problem:

air <- read.table("air.data",header=TRUE)

Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open file `air.data'

Just specify the location completely, e.g.:
 read.table("c:/my_path_to_the_file/air.data", header=TRUE)

R looks in your current working directory for files without specified
path.
You get the current working directory by
  getwd()

Uwe Ligges
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