Dr. Ripley Thank you very much. It would appear that the problem is simply something wrong with the way I am specifying the functions. I won't annoy anyone with further questions at this point until I've slammed my own head against the documentation yet again and again and again.
-----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:08 PM To: Adams, Jean Cc: Lane, Michael; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Question concerning directory/path names On 01/03/2013 15:49, Adams, Jean wrote: > I do not use these functions myself. But, why don't you do a little > test on some paths that you can control. Put the same files in > directories with and without spaces and see if you can get the functions to > work. In the case of RODBC, it never uses file names so this is an issue for the ODBC drivers but mine work with spaces in path names. I believe gdata uses Perl and fails to quote arguments it passes on. > > Jean > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lane, Michael <mfl...@odu.edu> wrote: > >> This seems like a very basic question so I have searched the FAQ >> site, several manuals, and the R-Seek site as well as Googling for an >> answer but can't seem to come up with one. I am trying to import an >> Excel file that resides on a University network. The path name of >> the file is to a network drive and includes blank spaces (e.g. >> K:/science/next directory science2/mydata/). The setwd() works and I >> am able to actually see the files in the directory on the network but >> for some reason the RODBC, GDATA and XlsReadWrite functions do not >> seem to be able to find the files. Does anyone know if these functions able >> to read path names with blank spaces? >> The available documentation doesn't seem to indicate one way or another. >> Note that I can't change the path name because they are setup by University >> network administrators. Obviously it may be some sort of syntax error >> with my coding of the functions (I'm in the process of learning R) >> but I am not going to ask for help with that a! >> nd I would like to eliminate the possibility that it is simply the >> path names. I have not tried conversion to .csv and then importing >> which I would prefer not to do. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 02J6h9Lik) is spam: Spam: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=02J6h9Lik&m=8b731ae81f7e&t=20130301&c=s Not spam: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=02J6h9Lik&m=8b731ae81f7e&t=20130301&c=n Forget vote: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=02J6h9Lik&m=8b731ae81f7e&t=20130301&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ______________________________________________ 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.
