How Do I Load an Rds File into R

Question

I'm trying load a rds file which should contain some data.

Professor says to use readRDS(), however R gives this long error message which I've not been able to decipher myself.

I'm trying to load the file and place it in an Object.

I hope that someone are able to provide some clever solution to this problem.

Canteen_clean <- readRDS("C:/Users/a_s_j/OneDrive/Studie/Cand.merc.Business Intelligence/1. Semester/R for Business Analytics/.Rproj/39 - Graphics/Exercises02/canteen_clean.rds")

Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open compressed file 'C:/Users/a_s_j/OneDrive/Studie/Cand.merc.Business Intelligence/1. Semester/R for Business Analytics/.Rproj/39 - Graphics/Exercises02/canteen_clean.rds', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

I'm using: pacman::p_load("pacman", "tidyverse") to load the packages that should be necessary.

Accepted Answer

Rather than typing a long file path, a really good idea in R is to let the system do the typing for you. That is, do something like this:

 filename <- file.choose()
 Canteen_clean <- readRDS(filename)

The first line will open the usual file open dialog box; you can select the file you want, and the name will be stored in the filename variable. The second line will use that name to open it.

Answer 2

You can try using setwd()

reach to that folder location then use

list.files()

to list all the files present in that folder

then use

t1 <- readRDS("/filename.rds")
head(t1)

to get that data.

Hope it solves your issue.

---------CODE---------------------------

> setwd(""C:/Users/a_s_j/OneDrive/Studie/Cand.merc.Business
> Intelligence/1. Semester/R for Business Analytics/.Rproj/39 -
> Graphics/Exercises02")
> 
> list.files()
> 
> t1 = readRDS("canteen_clean.rds") head(t1)

Answer 3

Try to use \\ instead of /. That is what works for me.

If this is not working there is a chance that the rds file is destroyed so you need either to recreate it or if you have access to get a new copy then try with a new copy. I had the same issue once.

I hope that this helps

How Do I Load an Rds File into R

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