FAQ Q 7.8 rw-FAQ Q 2.16 should both help, as perhaps should the warning about
> unrecognized escape removed from "C:\onlinesurvey.csv" You need to use forward slashes or double the backslashes. On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, hoogeebear wrote: > > Hi, > > Im getting the following error when I attempt to read a csv file into R. I > have the file saved on my C drive. Id really appreciate it if anyone can > help.... > > My Command: > >> survey <- read.csv (file = "C:\onlinesurvey.csv",head= TRUE, sep =",") sep = "," is the default (the 'c' in csv stands for 'comma') > Error: > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: '\o' is an unrecognized escape in a character string > 2: unrecognized escape removed from "C:\onlinesurvey.csv" > 3: In file(file, "r") : > cannot open file 'C:onlinesurvey.csv', reason 'No such file or directory' > > I have the file located on the C drive so I do not know why its telling me > "no such file or directiry". > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
