On windows, I think the best thing to do to improve your workflow with windows specific paths in R is to use e.g. In the pop-up context menu, click on the option to ‘ Copy as path ‘. Hold down the Shift key and Right-click on the file name.
When I right click on the file I only get Open, Print, Edit, Open with, and Send to as menu options. In Windows Explorer, browse to the file that you want the file path to. Value A character vector of the arguments concatenated term-by-term and separated by fsep if all arguments have positive length otherwise, an empty character.
Properties: Click this option to immediately view the full file path (location). Trailing path separators are invalid for Windows file paths apart from ‘ / ’ and ‘ d:/ ’ (although some functions/utilities do accept them), so a trailing / or is removed there. Copy As Path: Click this option to paste the full file path into a document. When I go on the file server, the actual file path is 277 characters because the file resides on F:FileShareUsersabcdefg. Click the Start button and then click Computer, click to open the location of the desired file, hold down the Shift key and right-click the file. Just replace the "\" with "/" or use an additional "\" to escape the "\" from its special meaning and everything works smooth. Once you ad the '.txt', the 255 character limit is reached. , have a look here ).īecause R does not know the sequence \U it complains. R is not able to understand normal windows paths correctly because the "\" has special meaning - it is used as escape character to give following characters special meaning ( \n for newline, \t for tab, \r for carriage return. Its also possible to use the R function setwd(), which stands for set working directory. Try this: x <- read.csv("C:/Users/surfcat/Desktop/2006_dissimilarity.csv", header=TRUE)