[R] space in directory name

[Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ]

And a final word of advice: be lazy, and use
file.choose()
to get the string that R expects as a filename. This will help avoid such typos!

JC

2011/9/13 Mikkel Grum <mi2kelgrum at yahoo.com>:
> You are missing \\ between Documents and settings and Administrator.
>
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> Subject: [R] space in directory name
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> Hi, I am trying to read a text file located in following paths. I am getting
> error if I try to read from long directory..  But if I place the file right
> under C, It runs fine. Could anyone tell me how to read table from following
> directory path ?
>
> data1 <-read.table("C:\\Documents and Settings Administrator\\My
> Documents\\My Dropbox\\data.txt", sep="\t", header=TRUE)
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>   cannot open file 'C:\Documents and Settings Administrator\My Documents\My
> Dropbox\data.txt': No such file or directory
>> data1 <-read.table("C:\\data.txt",sep="\t",header=TRUE)
>>
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