Hi Robin, Look at ?read.csv and ?read.table Regards, Ruan
Ruan Rossouw Sasol Technology R&D Reaction Technology and Industrial Statistics Tel: +27 16 960 4717 Fax: +27 11 522 4465 Cell: +27 83 724 4163 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [All views expressed are my own and not necessarily that of my employer.] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Williams, Robin Sent: 22 July 2008 03:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies Dear all, I appologise for cluttering up the list with such a basic question, however I have been unable to find the answer I want (possibly through my poor usage of the R help system). As I am visually impaired and using assistive technology, I think I would prefer to use R from the terminal mode, i.e. by running rterm.exe found in the bin directory. I have managed to set my working directory, I know this as typing getwd() returns u:/copd/r which is the directory I want. In this directory is a file named InitialDataAnalysis.csv which I would like to read in to R. However, I am simply unable to find the surely simple command to do this. Just typing InitialDataAnalysis.csv reports "object not found" etc, as does read.file("InitialDataAnalysis.csv") etc. I am surely making a simple mistake? Please could someone tell me how to read this file in to the terminal window? I know the file is in the directory and in the correct format as I am able to open it successfully in the R GUI, in this environment the file works properly, I can subset it, make dataframes etc, but as I say I would like to be able to do this in the terminal rather than the GUI. I am new to R so please have patients with this request. Many thanks for any help, Robin. Robin Williams Met Office summer intern - Health Forecasting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard Sasol eMail legal notice which may be found at: http://www.sasol.com/legalnotices If you cannot access the legal notice through the URL attached and you wish to receive a copy thereof please send an eMail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
