Opening Rdata file on R

Question

I have some trouble to open Rdata files on Rstudio.

I tried different directory.

I tried the load() function.

I set up the file pathway with setwd().

I made sure that the file pathway did not contain spaces or accent or particular character in it.

I tried the function load(file.choose()).

The file is 8.4 Mb (so not empty).

But it keeps saying:

"Object is not found"

It is downloaded from the internet but when I try load(url()) it says:

"cannot open the connection", however I do have internet connection. It also says "status was 'Couldn't connect to server' ".

Any thoughts ? Any ideas to solve the problem would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try using the full path to locate the file.

1. Locate the file on your computer. Let's assume the location is C:/Downloads/thedata.RData
2. Check if R sees that this file exists file.exists("C:/Downloads/thedata.RData")
3. If this returns TRUE then the file is there. Try loading load("C:/Downloads/thedata.RData")
4. Otherwise if file.exists() is FALSE then the file was not reachable. Try moving it to another place and try again

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The error you get is Object not found. This error message doesn't seem to be used within the load() function. It can occur if the file-path is missing the surrounding quotes.

Maybe you forgot to quote the filename?

> load(myfile.RData)

Error in load(myfile.RData) : object 'myfile.RData' not found

> load("myfile.RData")
# Works without error.