On May 13, 2011, at 05:57 , Me wrote: > Sorry if I don't know all the vocabulary. I'm taking a research methods class > that uses R, but I'm a journalism major, so I'm not very good with a lot of > computer jargon. > > The read.csv operator didn't work. I got the following error message: > Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > In addition: Warning message: > In file(file, "rt") : > cannot open file 'Downloads/UNdata_Export_20110511_130705015.csv': No such > file or directory >
You need to download the file from the website to your own computer and use the name and location of that file. You can't read the file off of _my_ hard disk! (Go to the web site, click Download and select comma separated values.) -p > > Thanks again if anyone can help. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Uploading-CSV-file-into-R-tp3515237p3519286.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
