I think you must have given the path to the file wrong. Assuming you are using R.app, try
infile <- file.choose() And then give infile to the read.csv() function. Then print the value of infile to find out what the path really is. Probably, you wanted '/Users/sezginozcan/Downloads/beer.data.csv' -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 2/9/12 7:20 PM, "sezgin ozcan" <szgoz...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have been trying to import a csv file to r. but I get the same message >everytime. the message is > >Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection >In addition: Warning message: >In file(file, "rt") : > cannot open file 'Users:/sezginozcan/Downloads/beer.data.csv': No such >file or directory > >I use mac. >I tried this command also >a<-read.table("clipboard",sep=â\tâ,row.names=1,header=T) >Error: unexpected input in "a<-read.table("clipboard",sep=â" > >I will appreciate if you help me before I get crazy. >thank you > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.