I’ve got it working now given help from several people. Yes, I’ve used windows since it first came out, and DOS before that. I switched to a Mac maybe 18 months ago when MS said they wouldn’t support windows 7 any more, and I didn’t like my wife’s windows 10. I’m still learning (and have just taken up R after not using it for years.). The Apple support people have taught me a lot!
From: Peter West <p...@pbw.id.au> Date: Monday, February 15, 2021 at 8:30 AM To: Parkhurst, David F. <parkh...@indiana.edu> Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] I'm new to R in a Mac. How do I specify the path in read.table()? David, I thought I saw advice on this issue already that noted you could not use backslashes in file paths on a Mac. Have you tried with “/Users/DFP/Desktop/Monroe319Ecoli.txt”? Do you come from a Windows background? Peter — mailto:p...@ehealth.id.au “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” On 30 Jan 2021, at 6:25 am, Parkhurst, David F. <mailto: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? _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
