Error in edit(name,file,title,editor)
Thanks. The file didn't exist at the time I tried "edit", and that was my error. David
On 20 Jul, 2008, at 12:44, jim holtman wrote:
Make sure you are in the right directory; you can also use the full path names. It is basically saying it can not find the file. Do 'list.files()' to see what is addressable in whatever directory you are in. On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:19 AM, David Epstein <David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
Can anyone help me with the following attempt to use an external editor from within R
vi(file="p286.R")
Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read
edit(file="p286.R")
Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read I have only recently re-started trying to learn R. (I tried before but failed.) I am working with a Mac MacOsX 10.4.11. I have R 2.7.1 GUI 1.25 (5166) which is the Cocoa version of R. I have been reading Peter Dalgaard's book, which is very helpful, and I have not met any errors so far, so I don't understand why I should suddenly hit this one. Since "edit" and "vi" appear to be in the utils package, I did
library(utils)
to which I got a null response. I have searched the R-help-archives for the error message, and have not found it. I suppose I could use the function source(), but I haven't tried this. Thanks for any help David Epstein
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