Hi Henrique, Thanks for your advice which works for me.
B.R. Stephen L ________________________________ From: Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com> Cc: R-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 10:24:01 PM Subject: Re: [R] About choosing file You can try tcltk: library(tcltk) tk_choose.files() Hi Uwe, > > >> (assuming R-2.11.1) >Yes > > >> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) >Enter file name: > >My problem here is ; >the file is NOT on /home/user directory. I need to browse for it. > >> list.files() >[1] "boxplot.pdf" "Desktop" "FourPlots01.png" "hist.png" >[5] "jranke_cran.asc" "M-x R" "M-x R~" > > >B.R. >Stephen L > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> >Cc: R-help@r-project.org >Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 9:20:48 PM >Subject: Re: [R] About choosing file > > > >On 26.08.2010 09:50, Stephen Liu wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> >> Following command only works on Windows >>> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) >> >> It popup open a dialog box for choosing file. >> >> >> But it doesn't work on Linux (Ubuntu); >>> Test01=read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE) >> Enter file name: >> >> >> Entering file name doesn't work. Please advise. TIA > > >(assuming R-2.11.1) > >Why not? What happens? What is the error message? Which file did you >specify and does >list.files() >lists the file? Please show the output. > >Best, >Uwe Ligges > >> >> B.R. >> Stephen L >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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