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

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