Each \ has to be escaped. Two becomes four, not three. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On April 5, 2016 10:23:11 AM PDT, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: >Windows 7 (local computer) >Windows server (server I am trying to reach) > >I need to read a file whose windows path is of the form > >\\Theserver\mydirectory\data.csv > >You will note that as per windows standards the server name is preceded >by two backslashes. > >I am not sure how to specify this in R. One usually needs to specify >an escape characters in a path new which would suggest my path should >be > > >\\\Theserver\\mydirectory\\data.csv > >This does not work; the file is not found. > >What is the correct way to specify a path to a server > >Thanks, >John > > >John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >Professor of Medicine >Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics >University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and >Geriatric Medicine >Baltimore VA Medical Center >10 North Greene Street >GRECC (BT/18/GR) >Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >(Phone) 410-605-7119 >(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > >Confidentiality Statement: >This email message, including any attachments, is for t...{{dropped:15}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.