[R] readJPEG function cannot open jpeg files

[Jeff Newmiller]

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Yi Yuan <lambandme at gmail.com> wrote:

>I installed jpeg package and tried to use
>
>kim<-readJPEG("kim.jpeg") to read in a jpeg file, but R gave me an
>error:
>Error in readJPEG("kim.jpeg") : unable to open kim.jpeg
>
>I already put "kim.jpeg" in Rstudio's default working directory:
>"E:\home
>work\Rstudio". So I don't think it's a problem caused by omitting the
>file's
>path. But I tried with the full path version just in case and still got
>the
>"unable to open" error:
>
>kim<-readJPEG("E:\\ home work\\Rstudio\\kim.jpeg")
>Error in readJPEG("E:\\ home work\\Rstudio\\kim.jpeg") :
>  unable to open E:\ home work\Rstudio\kim.jpeg
>
>So now I really don't know what is wrong.
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