Hi, guys, my problem is solved.
I used file.info(list.files(getwd(),full.names=TRUE)) and found out that
the said file is listed as "kim.jpg" instead of "kim.jpeg". So
kim<-readJPEG("kim.jpg") worked. Thanks for your help and sorry for my
newbie question.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Yi Yuan <lamban...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks William !
>
> file.info("E:/ home work/Rstudio/kim.jpeg")
> size isdir mode mtime ctime atime
> exe
> E:/home work/Rstudio/kim.jpeg NA NA <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>
> So R thinks this file doesn't exist? But the file is already in "E:/ home
> work/Rstudio" folder, I don't understand why file.info( ) returned such
> message. I have multiple files in this directory "E:/home work/Rstudio",
> but R shows:
> file.info("E:/home work/Rstudio")
> size isdir mode
> mtime ctime atime exe
> E:/home work/Rstudio 0 TRUE 777 2013-01-13 22:12:58 2013-01-13
> 20:57:36 2013-01-13 22:12:58 no
>
> Any help ?
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com>wrote:
>
>> You can use file.info("myFile") to make sure the file exists and has
>> appropriate permissions ("mode"
>> in file.info's lingo, as in Unix). E.g.,
>>
>> > file.info("c:/temp/BO.jpeg") # this one does not exist
>> size isdir mode mtime ctime atime exe
>> c:/temp/BO.jpeg NA NA <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
>> > file.info("c:/temp/BO.jpg") # this one exists
>> size isdir mode mtime ctime
>> atime
>> c:/temp/BO.jpg 150536 FALSE 666 2013-01-14 08:35:32 2013-01-14 08:33:09
>> 2013-01-14 08:33:09
>> exe
>> c:/temp/BO.jpg no
>>
>> I can readJPEG() the file with mode 666, but not all permission
>> information is encoded in the mode.
>>
>> Bill Dunlap
>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
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>> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 8:25 AM
>> > To: Yi Yuan; r-help@r-project.org
>> > Subject: Re: [R] readJPEG function cannot open jpeg files
>> >
>> > Being unable to open a file is a related to your operating system and
>> how R interacts with
>> > that OS. If your interactive development environment (IDE, of which
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>> >
>> > ?sessionInfo
>> > ?getwd
>> > ?list.files
>> >
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>> you might need to
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>> > Yi Yuan <lamban...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >I installed jpeg package and tried to use
>> > >
>> > >kim<-readJPEG("kim.jpeg") to read in a jpeg file, but R gave me an
>> > >error:
>> > >Error in readJPEG("kim.jpeg") : unable to open kim.jpeg
>> > >
>> > >I already put "kim.jpeg" in Rstudio's default working directory:
>> > >"E:\home
>> > >work\Rstudio". So I don't think it's a problem caused by omitting the
>> > >file's
>> > >path. But I tried with the full path version just in case and still got
>> > >the
>> > >"unable to open" error:
>> > >
>> > >kim<-readJPEG("E:\\ home work\\Rstudio\\kim.jpeg")
>> > >Error in readJPEG("E:\\ home work\\Rstudio\\kim.jpeg") :
>> > > unable to open E:\ home work\Rstudio\kim.jpeg
>> > >
>> > >So now I really don't know what is wrong.
>> > >
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