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The likely problem here is that your file isn't in the current working
directory. To avoid this problem, I often use the file.choose()
function to obtain a full path to the file, rather than typing the name
out myself.
Duncan Murdoch
On 11/7/2006 8:48 AM, Satya Pimputkar wrote:
> Hello R-Team,
>
>
>
> I’m a student of the University of Zurich studing Finances.
>
> I just installed R for Windows (2.4.0) on my tablet pc (windows pro tablet
> edition).
>
> After reboot I ran the program and changed the directory to my used folder.
>
> Using a .txt file named “a.txt” and stored in the entered directory I tried
> the function:
>
>
>
> scan(“a.txt”) and read.table(“a.txt”)
>
>
>
> Following error report encountered:
>
>
>
> scann("a.txt")
>
> Fehler in file(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen
>
> Zusätzlich: Warning message:
>
> kann Datei 'a.txt' nicht öffnen. Grund 'No such file or directory'
>
>
>
> Where is the problem?
>
> I tried, reinstalling, turing off virus scan/firewall, run program alone w/o
> other applications
> behind.
>
>
>
> Please help me out, our local “R-professionals” including the doc can’t fix
> this problem
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Satya Pimputkar
>
>
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