Usually this kind of error indicates one or two errors. First check that the path to the input file is correct. Make sure that your input file ends with csv. Next problem could be that a spelling error is causing the problem. Make sure everything is spelled correctly in both the path statement to the input file and that the file name is spelled the same way in both the path and the actual file name.
Good luck Steve friedman.st...@gmail.com 517-648-6290 -----Original message----- From: Me <dolle...@illinois.edu> To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 05:48:11 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [R] Uploading CSV file into R Sorry if I don't know all the vocabulary. I'm taking a research methods class that uses R, but I'm a journalism major, so I'm not very good with a lot of computer jargon. The read.csv operator didn't work. I got the following error message: Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In file(file, "rt") : cannot open file 'Downloads/UNdata_Export_20110511_130705015.csv': No such file or directory Thanks again if anyone can help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Uploading-CSV-file-into-R-tp3515237p3519286.htm l Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.