Message-ID: <3BAF86DD.52402AE3@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2001-09-24T19:17:49Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Problem with read.table and scan
"Scott, Uriel" wrote:
>
> 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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