How to open CSV file in R when R says no such file or directory

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I have an excel file that I want to open in R  I tried both of these commands after saving the excel file as a csv file or a text file   read table   or read csv    I think part of the problem is where the file is located  I have it saved on the desk top  What am I missing here   Here is the R output  In file file   rt       cannot open file  Rtrial csv   No such file or directory  gt  help search  read csv    gt  read csv  Rtrial csv   Error in file file   rt     cannot open the connection In addition  Warning message  In file file   rt       cannot open file  Rtrial csv   No such file or directory  gt  read table  tab

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Try  f  lt - file choose     to choose the file interactively and save the name in f   Then run read csv on the saved filename  d  lt - read csv f

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In my case this very problem was raised by wrong spelling  lower case  c   instead of upper case  C   in the path  I corrected spelling and problem vanished

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I just had this problem and I first switched to another directory and then switched back and the problem was fixed

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Sound like you just have an issue with the path  Include the full path  if you use backslashes they need to be escaped   C   folder  folder  Desktop  file csv  or  C  folder folder Desktop file csv    myfile   read csv  C  folder folder Desktop file csv      or read table     It may also be wise to avoid spaces and symbols in your file names  though I m fairly certain spaces are OK

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MAC OS It happened to me as well  I simply chose from the R toolbar MISC and then chose Change Working Directory  I was able to choose the directory that the  csv file was saved in   When I went back to the command line and typed getwd   the full directory was updated and correct and the read csv function finally worked

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I had to combine Maiasaura and Svun answers to get it to work  using setwd and escaping all the slashes and spaces   setwd  C   Users  firstname  lastname  Desktop  folder1  folder2  folder3   data   read csv  file csv   data   This solved the issue for me

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I have experienced that this error occurs when you either move the excel file to the destination other than where your r file is located or when you move your r file to the destination other than where your excel file is located    Good Practice     Keep your  r and  csv files in the same directory  open your  r file from getting into its directory instead of opening the r file from  rstuio s open file option    You also have import Dataset option at Environment Block  just click there and get your required packages installed  amp  from next time use this option to read datasets  You will not get this error again  I also appreciate the above provided answers

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this work for me  accesing data from root  use double slash to access address    dataset   read csv  C   Users  Desktop  Machine Learning  Data csv

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To throw out another option  why not set the working directory  preferably via a script  to the desktop using setwd  C  John Desktop   and then read the files just using file names

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Here is one way to do it  It uses the ability of R to construct file paths based on the platform and hence will work on both Mac OS and Windows  Moreover  you don t need to convert your xls file to csv  as there are many R packages that will help you read xls directly  e g  gdata package      get user s home directory home   setwd Sys getenv  HOME        construct path to file fpath   file path home   Desktop    RTrial xls       load gdata library to read xls files library gdata      read xls file Rtrial   read xls fpath     Let me know if this works

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Save as in excel will keep the file open and lock it so you can t open it   Close the excel file or you won t be able to use it in R  Give the full path and escape backslashes read csv  c   users  JoeUser  Desktop  JoesData csv

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I had the same problem and when I checked the properties of the file on file explorer  it shows me the next message    Security  This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer   You click on the  Unblock  button and    you can access to the file from R without any problem  just using read csv   function and from the directory specified as your working directory  even if is not the same as the file   s directory you are accessing to

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Another way of reading Excel including the new format xlsx could be the package speedR  https   r-forge r-project org projects speedr    It is an interactive and visual data importer  Besides importing you can filter subset  the existing objects from the R workspace

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Kindly check whether the file name has an extension for example   abc csv   if so remove the  csv extension  set wd to the folder containing the file     data lt -read csv  abc csv     Your data has been read the data object

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My issue was very simple  the working directory was not the  Source  directory that was printed when the file ran  To fix this  you can use getwd   and setwd   to get your relative links working  or just use a full path when opening the csv   print getwd      Where does the code think it is  setwd    Documents     Where do I want my code to be  dat   read csv    Documents Data Visualization expDataAnalysis one ac1 survey csv    just make it work

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