Ah. That will simplify the process a lot! From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 10:52 AM To: Parkhurst, David F. <parkh...@indiana.edu>, r-sig-mac@r-project.org <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] How to find the path for a file to be read with read.table() in a Mac On 13/02/2021 10:42 a.m., Parkhurst, David F. wrote: > I�ve several times to figure this out with no luck. I�ve moved a tab > delimited text file (created from excel) to the desktop to simplify the path. > If I click on the file and ask Get Info, it lists �Where� as iCloud Drive > > Desktop. If I copy that to the clipboard and paste that into a read.table > command in the R console, it comes up as /Users/DFP/Desktop. But if I try > read.table("\\Users\\DFP\\Desktop\\moabsitechem<file:///Users/DFP/Desktop/moabsitechem>"), > I get No such file or directory. How can I get that file into a data frame? > > Is there some place in my Mac that I can put the file so I could enter just > the file name, and not the whole path?
Sorry, forget to answer your actual question: You can use getwd() to find the working directory. If you put the file there, you won't need to specify the path. Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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