File path issues in R using Windows (“Hex digits in character string” error)

Question

I run R on Windows, and have a csv file on the Desktop. I load it as follows,

x<-read.csv(\"C:\\Users\\surfcat\\Desktop\\2006_dissimilarity.csv\",header=T         


        

Answer 1

readClipboard() works directly too. Copy the path into your clipboard

C:\Users\surfcat\Desktop\2006_dissimilarity.csv

Then

readClipboard()

appears as

[1] "C:\\Users\\surfcat\\Desktop\\2006_dissimilarity.csv"