[R] Scan or read.table bug in R?

[Duncan Murdoch]

Please post general R help questions to the R-help mailing list.

The likely problem here is that your file isn't in the current working 
directory.  To avoid this problem, I often use the file.choose() 
function to obtain a full path to the file, rather than typing the name 
out myself.

Duncan Murdoch

On 11/7/2006 8:48 AM, Satya Pimputkar wrote:
> Hello R-Team,
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> I’m a student of the University of Zurich studing Finances.
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> I just installed R for Windows (2.4.0) on my tablet pc (windows pro tablet edition).
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> After reboot I ran the program and changed the directory to my used folder.
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> Using a .txt file named “a.txt” and stored in the entered directory I tried the function:
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> scan(“a.txt”) and read.table(“a.txt”)
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> Following error report encountered:
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> scann("a.txt")
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> Fehler in file(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen
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> Zusätzlich: Warning message:
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> kann Datei 'a.txt' nicht öffnen. Grund 'No such file or directory'
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> Where is the problem? 
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> I tried, reinstalling, turing off virus scan/firewall, run program alone w/o other applications
> behind.
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> Please help me out, our local “R-professionals” including the doc can’t fix this problem
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> Thank you in advance!
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> Kind regards
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> Satya Pimputkar
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