HI The problem is the file is called "limestone.dat.txt". In Explorer in Windows you should go to Tools, Folder Options and under View you should find an option "Hide Extensions for known file types" - turn this off and then press Apply to all folders. Then you'll see the real file name.
It's also good to do this as it's a simple way to avoid running programs you don't want to run. HTH David Jessop -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Nokuzola Simakuhle Sent: 18 August 2010 10:46 To: r-help@r-project.org; r-help-requ...@r-project.org Subject: [R] Fwd: R SOFTWARE NB: This email and its contents are subject to the Eskom Holdings Limited EMAIL LEGAL NOTICE which can be viewed at http://www.eskom.co.za/email_legalnotice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Good Morning Im busy doing an exercise on Foundation of Statistical Description and Analysis,Please check the attached exercise on page 3.In this exercise the first step is to check the content of Limestone.data so I entered the following command on R console >limedata=read.table("c:/temp/M5/limestone.dat", header = TRUE) and I >got an error message that says "Error in file(file,"rt"): cannot open >the connection In addition: Warning message In file(file, "rt") : cannot open file 'c:/temp/M5/limestone.dat': Permission denied Could you please help me to get this data The following path is the physical path/where I've saved my limestone data. C:\Temp\M5\limestone.dat I've attached the exercise,snapshot of R Console,limedata.zip Kindest Regards Nokuzola Simakuhle NB: This email and its contents are subject to the Eskom Holdings Limited EMAIL LEGAL NOTICE which can be viewed at http://www.eskom.co.za/email_legalnotice Issued by UBS AG or affiliates to professional investors...{{dropped:30}} ______________________________________________ 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.
