Re: [R] error "The system cannot find the file specified..."

2018-09-23 Thread Ek Esawi
Thank you Bert and Rui. Everything mentioned on your posts was OK with the exception of a typo in my original post where [a] was instead [[a]]. I stumbled one something that stated if i delete the sub-directory and create it it again might work. In my case once that was done, it worked. Thanks aga

Re: [R] error "The system cannot find the file specified..."

2018-09-23 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I would add that it's probably better to assign for(i in seq_along(file.names)){ A[[i]] <- extract_tables(file.names[i]) } (It's a list so double [[, not just [). Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Às 01:45 de 23/09/2018, Bert Gunter escreveu: for(i in 1:length(file.names)){ A[i] <-

Re: [R] error "The system cannot find the file specified..."

2018-09-22 Thread Bert Gunter
You probably want pattern = "\\.PDF" , as "." has a special meaning for regex's. However, that really shouldn't make any difference. Obvious questions: 1. dir() returns a vector of file names. Are they pdf's "PDF" or "pdf" (case matters!) ? 2. extract.tables() almost certainly wants the full path

[R] error "The system cannot find the file specified..."

2018-09-22 Thread Ek Esawi
Hi All, I am using the R Tabulizer package to extract tables from a set of pdf files. Tabulizer creates a list of data frames; each corresponds to a table in a file. My aim is to create a list of lists, one for each file.i have 8 files The code below kept giving me the error "Error in normalizePat