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I am trying to read a text file located in following paths. I am getting error if I read the file from long directory.. But if I place the file right under C, it runs fine. Could anyone tell me how to read table from following directory path ?

> data1 <-read.table("C:\\Documents and Settings Administrator\\My Documents\\My Dropbox\\data1.txt", sep="\t", header=TRUE) 
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection 
In addition: Warning message: 
In file(file, "rt") : 
  cannot open file 'C:\Documents and Settings Administrator\My Documents\My Dropbox\data.txt': No such file or directory 
> data1 <-read.table("C:\\data1.txt",sep="\t",header=TR开发者_如何学PythonUE) 
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You are almost certainly missing a separator in

C:\\Documents and Settings Administrator\\My Documents\\My Dropbox\\data1.txt

It should read

C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\\My Dropbox\\data1.txt

I think this, rather than the spaces, is the problem.

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In R's string literals, the backslash character is used an escape character; this can be seen in your example, where "\t" is resolved to a tab character. If you would like to use the blackslash itself, you should use a double backslash.

data1 <- read.table("C:\\Path\\To\\A\\File")

It's also OK to use a forward slash:

data1 <- read.table("C:/Path/To/A/File")

In addition, I would check the path carefully: in your pasted code it seems you might be missing a backslash between "Documents and Settings" and "Administrator".

In answer to your question title, there should be no problem with including spaces in a file path.