[R] Question concerning directory/path names

[Lane, Michael]

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:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:08 PM
To: Adams, Jean
Cc: Lane, Michael; r-help at 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 <mflane at 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.

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