[R] Putting directory path as a parameter

Hi List, I am new to R, this may be simple. I want to store directory path as parameter which in turn to be used while reading and writing data from csv files. How I can use dir defined in the below mentioned example while reading the csv file. Example: dir - C:/Users/Desktop #location of

Re: [R] Putting directory path as a parameter

Hi Aajit, try using the ?paste function to combine the variable with your directly and the filename into one string, and then pass that to read.csv() or whatever paste(dir, /bs_dev_segment_file.csv, sep = '') HTH, Josh On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, aajit75 aaji...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi

Re: [R] Putting directory path as a parameter

Try pasting them together like paste(dir, ...) You may need to use the collapse argument. Alternatively, change your working directory to dir with setwd(). M On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:12 AM, aajit75 aaji...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi List, I am new to R, this may be simple. I want to store

Re: [R] Putting directory path as a parameter

file.path() is much better for this than paste(), e.g. dir - C:/Users/Desktop pathname - file.path(dir, bs_dev_segment_file.csv) temp_data - read.csv(pathname) /Henrik On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: Try pasting