Error loading .RData files

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Hello everyone,

I'm receiving this error message after loading .RData file I received from a colleague.

Error in readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) :
cannot open compressed file './merged_data.RData', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

This error is in response to this piece of code:
library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)

data_dir <- "."

load(file.path(data_dir, "merged_data.RData"), verbose = T)

Initially, I thought it was due to old R version, but I have updated it to R version 3.6.3 and RStudio to Version 1.2.5033. I am also having trouble installing CRAN package but am not sure if these two things are related.

Thank you very much for your help in this. Been bugging me for 2 days now.

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It seems that you simply don't have the data in your working directory.
on your R console write getwd() to see the local path to your wd.
also you can type dir() to list the files present there, which should include merged_data.RData for your code to be expected to work.

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yep..that was it. thank you kindly!

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