Re: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

2008-07-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What I suggest you do is 1) Put the R bin directory in your path. 2) cd to your working directory, and start Rterm.exe from there. 3) Then dat <- read.csv("InitialDataAnalysis.csv") should work. Note, there is no 'read.file', and of the many read.* functions you want to read a .csv file so

Re: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

2008-07-22 Thread Rossouw, Ruan (RF)
MAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Williams, Robin Sent: 22 July 2008 03:25 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies Dear all, I appologise for cluttering up the list with such a basic question, however I have been unable to find the answer I

Re: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

2008-07-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Maybe the spelling is slightly differently than you think. List all filenames ending in csv: dir(patt = "csv$") If there is only one then: fn <- dir(patt = "csv$") read.csv(fn) or if there are many and its the second read.csv(fn[2]) On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Williams, Robin <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

2008-07-22 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi Robin, read.table() is the general import function, and read.csv() and read.csv2() are very similar but have different defaults. For learning the ins and outs of R, the keyword help search is very useful: help.search("csv") would have sent you to read.table for data input. There are also some

[R] Opening files from R terminal - appologies

2008-07-22 Thread Williams, Robin
Dear all, I appologise for cluttering up the list with such a basic question, however I have been unable to find the answer I want (possibly through my poor usage of the R help system). As I am visually impaired and using assistive technology, I think I would prefer to use R from the terminal m