Thanks for your reply Ista and Duncan,
i solved the issue and you were both right. Ista, my file was spelled with a
capital L (as in "Light") and it wasn't recognized. However, this was never a
problem in windows as Duncan pointed out. You live and learn. :-)
Thanks very much,
Christian
________________________________________
From: Duncan Murdoch [murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:50 AM
To: Christian De Santis; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Problem importing file in R after switching from windows to
Ubuntu
On 14-02-28 4:47 PM, Christian De Santis wrote:
> Dear R List,
>
> today i have installed Ubuntu as i decided to give this a try after running R
> in windows was always running out of memory in making my figures. I have
> copied my working folders into Ubuntu and changed the WD and the \\ into /. I
> tried to re run the script and it was going all well till i tried to read a
> csv database into R.
>
> Annot <-
> read.csv("~/Documents/DATABASES/Functional_Annotations/Salar_2_Annot_light.csv",
> header = TRUE)
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning
> message: In file(file, "rt") : cannot open file
> '/home/cd46/Documents/DATABASES/Functional_Annotations/Salar_2_Annot_light.csv':
> No such file or directory
>
> The code is right, and i checked it many times. I copied pasted in
>
> setwd("~/Documents/DATABASES/Functional_Annotations")
> and it works fine! The file is there too, i have checked and manually opened
> it. I know the message is telling me that he can't find the file or the
> directory but really, they are there and they are right (i think).
>
> Can someone give me some suggestions? What could i try? Or even better maybe
> you have a solution.
Likely Ubuntu is treating the file system as case sensitive; Windows
usually does not.
Another possibility is that you don't have read permission on the file.
Duncan Murdoch
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