Ah. That will simplify the process a lot!
From: Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 10:52 AM
To: Parkhurst, David F. <[email protected]>, [email protected]
<[email protected]>
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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