[R] space in directory name

Hi, I am trying to read a text file located in following paths. I am getting error if I try to read from long directory.. But if I place the file right under C, It runs fine. Could anyone tell me how to read table from following directory path ? data1 -read.table(C:\\Documents and Settings

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I suggest changing Documents and Settings Administrator to Documents and Settings\\Administrator ... JC 2011/9/13 dbonneau daronnebonn...@gmail.com: Hi, I am trying to read a text file located in following paths. I am getting error if I try to read from long directory..  But if I place the

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Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ jcbouette at gmail.com writes: I suggest changing Documents and Settings Administrator to Documents and Settings\\Administrator Please don't cross-post to R-help and Stack Overflow. People in both places will gladly answer well-posed questions, but it turns into

Re: [R] space in directory name

FYI, by using library(R.utils); pathname - C:\\Documents and Settings Administrator\\My Documents\\My Dropbox\\data.txt; pathname - Arguments$getReadablePathname(pathname); data1 - read.table(pathname, sep=\t, header=TRUE); you would get an explanation what is wrong and helps you troubleshoot,

Re: [R] space in directory name

You are missing \\ between Documents and settings and Administrator. - Original Message - From: dbonneau daronnebonn...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:59 AM Subject: [R] space in directory name Hi, I am trying to read a text file located

Re: [R] space in directory name

: dbonneau daronnebonn...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:59 AM Subject: [R] space in directory name Hi, I am trying to read a text file located in following paths. I am getting error if I try to read from long directory..  But if I place the file