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 <aaji...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> 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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