Yong Wang wrote: > > Dear all: > I am totally new to R, actually, statistics software.I get two very > simple, even stupid question:
But you are not new to e-mails. So, please don't specify a stupid subject line, but a sensible one. (OK, the rest of this message's body is unspecific as well, hence the subject might be quite sensible in a way, tough.) > 1) where I should put the data file in order to use it , I tried to build > a work dir in library( package:base) and save the text file (data) there, > then, I use read.table(filename), not work; I tried the full path, still > not work. I must have done something wrong. The working directory is the one you are starting R in, or what you have set with setwd(). It's not a good idea to create a working directory within the library section. Specifying the full path should always work. What you did wrong is: - not reading the manual "An Introduction to R" carefully - not reading the manual "R Data Import/Export" - beeing to unspecific. After having read the manuals and help pages, you may ask a specific question, but including error messages and code you used (we cannot help if we cannot look at your mistakes). > 2) is it possible to create a data file in R instead of put data in a txt > file and then save the file under R? Yes. Exporting Data (including ASCII formats) is also covered in the "R Data Import/Export" manual. Uwe Ligges > I tried to find answer from the introduction, failed. > I really appreciate your help, thank you very much. > best > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
