I need help with a programming language called R.

[coloradodem2005]

I have been looking all over www.r-project.org to try to import a data file from WinEdt and it will say that the file is not there. Does anybody know anything about this?

This is what I type:
dat <- read.table ("D:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\CH01PR19.txt", row.names=1, col.names=c("GPA", "ACT"))

This is the error message:
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open file `D:Program FilesWinEdt TeamCH01PR19.txt'

[salvorhardin]

1. I think you need to...

I'm not at all familiar with R but I think your problem here is that you need to use the Unix style path separators.

Try this:

dat <- read.table ("D:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/CH01PR19.txt", row.names=1, col.names=c("GPA", "ACT"))

Reason: The backslash is traditionally used as an escape character in most programming languages. Like in PHP if you wanted to print the string "I've been a very good boy." you would need to escape the special character tick mark like this:

print ("I\'ve been a very good boy.");

I'm not sure of the origins of it but only Microsoft seems to have used the backslash as a path separator. I can't remember if CP/M did too.

Edit: Damn I can't type today.