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edit(file=file.choose()) Also, before your edit() command, try getwd() Is the file in that directory?? -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 8/8/13 7:51 AM, "David Epstein" <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk> wrote: >I tried using various versions of the 'edit' command. Here is an account >of >how this failed. I hope I have included all relevant information. > >I haven't used R for a couple of years. Before restarting with R, I >downloaded the latest version I could find in its binary version, and >installed it without any problems. >Mac Os X Finder command "About R" responds with >R 3.0.1 GUI 1.61 Snow Leopard build (6492) > >From inside R >>version > >> platform x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 >> arch x86_64 >> os darwin10.8.0 #(However, my os is in fact 10.6.8) >> >> system x86_64, darwin10.8.0 >> status >> major 3 >> minor 0.1 >> year 2013 >> month 05 >> day 16 >> svn rev 62743 >> language R >> version.string R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) >> nickname Good Sport >> >>edit(file='2.9.R') >> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection >> In addition: Warning message: >> In file(con, "r") : cannot open file '2.9.R': No such file or directory >> >>getOption('editor') >[1] "vi" > >>edit(file='2.9.R',editor='/opt/local/bin/vim') >> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection >> In addition: Warning message: >> In file(con, "r") : cannot open file '2.9.R': No such file or directory >> >>vi(file='try') >> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection >> In addition: Warning message: >> In file(con, "r") : cannot open file 'try': No such file or directory >> >And here is my interaction with tcsh (my default shell) >H2:~% echo $VISUAL >/opt/local/bin/vim >H2:~% echo $EDITOR >/opt/local/bin/vim >H2:~% which vi >vi: aliased to /opt/local/bin/vim >H2:~/<4>Chap2% ls -ld >drwxr-xr-x 11 dbae dbae 374 8 Aug 10:54 ./ > > >What am I doing wrong? >Thanks for any help. >David >______________________________________________ >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.