There's not usually a colon in Mac file paths. I would have expected "/Users/sezginozcan/Downloads.beer.data.csv" instead. Did you check that?
More generally, type dir(PATHWHEREYOUTHINKFILEIS) and see if it really is there. Michael On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:20 PM, sezgin ozcan <szgoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been trying to import a csv file to r. but I get the same message > everytime. the message is > > Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > In addition: Warning message: > In file(file, "rt") : > cannot open file 'Users:/sezginozcan/Downloads/beer.data.csv': No such file > or directory > > I use mac. > I tried this command also > a<-read.table("clipboard",sep=”\t”,row.names=1,header=T) > Error: unexpected input in "a<-read.table("clipboard",sep=‚" > > I will appreciate if you help me before I get crazy. > thank you > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.