Stuck with beginner functions

[Rafael_Jimenez]

Hello All, If anyone would be so kind to help a newbie out please, I am currently working on my first Case study for the data analytics certificate.

First, I was getting the following errors: "cannot open file '202406-divvy-tripdata.csv': No such file or directory"
I found the answer on this forum and figured I had to use the path. Then I get the following error: Error:

Summary

"'\U

' used without hex digits in character string (:1:24)"

[prubin]

Please show us the code that is trying to open the file. Feel free to obfuscate any server or user names for security reasons.

[Rafael_Jimenez]

Thanks for replying. First time posting in this forum, How do i obfuscate? sorry. Let me edit my post as well to show the code. Thanks again

[prubin]

To obfuscate, just type any junk ("xxx", "mycathatesme", ...) in place of anything you wouldn't want the internet to see.

[Rafael_Jimenez]

These are the codes that I was trying to attempt:
Jul2024<- read.csv("L:\dgfng\xxxxx\akfjnjfn\lalalafdsknakdgfjn\asfjkajfb\202406-divvy-tripdata\202406-divvy-tripdata.csv")
Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string (:1:24)

and

Jul2024<- read.csv("202406-divvy-tripdata.csv")
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
cannot open file '202406-divvy-tripdata.csv': No such file or directory

[nightstand]

Try replacing the backslashes \ with forward slashes / in your file path.

Jul2024<- read.csv("L:/dgfng/xxxxx/akfjnjfn/lalalafdsknakdgfjn/asfjkajfb/202406-divvy-tripdata/202406-divvy-tripdata.csv")

[Rafael_Jimenez]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! It worked! Thus, I do not have to fix the backlashes at the source just at the console in R?

[nirgrahamuk]

backslashes and forward slashes are both examples of file separators, these are Operating System dependendent ( think, Windows/Mac/Linux etc.) ;
R has handy function file.path() that knows what is appropriate for your system, and can put in the correct slash (or other seperator)
one would use it like so :

Jul2024 <- read.csv(file.path("L:", "dgfng", "xxxxx", "akfjnjfn", "lalalafdsknakdgfjn", "asfjkajfb", "202406-divvy-tripdata", "202406-divvy-tripdata.csv"))