You can also point R to the directory where the file of interest is, rather
than moving the file to the directory where R is currently pointing.
setwd(“~/Desktop”)
Bryan
> On Feb 13, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Parkhurst, David F. <parkh...@indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Thank you. I thought I�d seen in some book that in a Mac, one had to specify
> paths in the way I tried.
>
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 10:49 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?
>
> It doesn't make sense to use backslashes in the path: macOS will see
> those as part of the name, not as path separators. Just use
> read.table("/Users/DFP/Desktop/moabsitechm") if that's the filename.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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