Message-ID: <4366679E.1040205@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-10-31T18:51:10Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Import help (neophyte)
In-Reply-To: <s3660eab.026@TMIA1.AUBURN.EDU>
On 10/31/2005 1:31 PM, Jeffrey Stratford wrote:
> Hi, I have no experience with R and I'm finding the manuals a bit obtuse
> and written as if I already understood R.
>
> I'm trying to import a csv file from a floppy and it's not working. The
> code I'm using is
>
> read.table("F:\GEORGIA\species_richness\SR_use.csv", sep=",", header =
> TRUE, row.names = 1)
>
> I'm assuming that this command is case sensitive so everything matches.
> Is there something I'm missing?
In R (as in C) the backslash is an escape character. To have a
backslash appear in your pathname, you need to double it.
Alternatively, just use a forward slash:
read.table("F:/GEORGIA/species_richness/SR_use.csv", sep=",", header =
TRUE, row.names = 1)
Duncan Murdoch