Hi, https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/file.path.html
See the note at the bottom. It's liberating in many ways that R handles the underlying details for you - use the forward slash and you'll be good to go without regard to the platform. I think using file.path() is the best way to go. Just do something like the following... filename <- file.path("Users", "DFP", "Desktop", "Monroe319Ecoli.txt") x <- read.table(filename) Cheers, Ben On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:14 AM 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 > -- Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science East Boothbay, Maine http://www.bigelow.org/ https://eco.bigelow.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac