[R] r noobie, reading my text file into r

[Ivan Calandra]

I would guess the problem is that the file is not where you think it is 
or that you spelled the file name and/or path incorrectly.

An easy thing to try is:
read.table(file=file.choose(), header=TRUE, sep="\t")

The function file.choose() will open a window where you'll have to 
choose the file from directories. This way, you're sure to select a file 
that exists and to input the correct path.

HTH,
Ivan

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Le 06/02/14 19:00, frankreynolds a écrit :
> Hi everyone, this is my first time using r and I think I'm overlooking
> something small and I just need some help seeing it. I have a file in
> notepad that I need to read into r.
>> ceosalary<-read.table(file="C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.csv",header
>> = TRUE,sep="\t")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>    cannot open file 'C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.csv': No such file
> or directory
>> ceosalary<-read.table(file="C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.txt",header
>> = TRUE,sep="\t")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>    cannot open file 'C:/Users/mz106_010/Desktop/ceosalary.txt': No such file
> or directory
>
> am I writing one of those incorrectly? What can I do to fix the problem? Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your time everyone!
>
>
>
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