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Putting directory path as a parameter

4 messages · aajit75, Joshua Wiley, michael.weylandt at gmail.com (R. Michael Weylandt +1 more

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Hi List,

I am new to R, this may be simple. 

I want to store directory path as parameter which in turn to be used while
reading and writing data from csv files.

How I can use dir defined  in the below mentioned example while reading the
csv file.

Example:
dir <- "C:/Users/Desktop" #location of file

temp_data <- read.csv("dir/bs_dev_segment_file.csv")

If I run this it will show errors:

Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
  cannot open file 'dir/bs_dev_segment_file.csv': No such file or directory

Regards,
-Ajit

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Hi Aajit,

try using the ?paste function to combine the variable with your
directly and the filename into one string, and then pass that to
read.csv() or whatever

paste(dir, "/bs_dev_segment_file.csv", sep = '')

HTH,

Josh
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, aajit75 <aajit75 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

  
    
Try pasting them together like

paste(dir, "...")

You may need to use the collapse argument. Alternatively, change your working directory to dir with setwd(). 

M
On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:12 AM, aajit75 <aajit75 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

            
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file.path() is much better for this than paste(), e.g.

dir <- "C:/Users/Desktop"
pathname <- file.path(dir, "bs_dev_segment_file.csv")
temp_data <- read.csv(pathname)

/Henrik

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote: