Just use forward slashes, backslashes is a Windows thing. I.e. read.table("/Users/DFP/Desktop/Monroe319Ecoli.txt")
should do it. A generic trick is x <- file.choose() dd <- read.table(x) (and then possible have a look at x) -pd > On 29 Jan 2021, at 21:25 , Parkhurst, David F. <parkh...@indiana.edu> wrote: > > I�ve tried for over an hour to figure this out with no luck. I�ve moved the > text file (created from excel) to the desktop to simplify the path. If I > click on the file and ask Get Info, it lists �Where� as iCloud Drive > > Desktop. If I copy that to the clipboard and paste that into a read.table > command in the R interface, it comes up as /Users/DFP/Desktop. But if I try > read.table("\\Users\\DFP\\Desktop\\Monroe319Ecoli.txt"), I get No such file > or directory. How can I get that file into a data frame? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac