File Location Help

[Asimons07]

Below is the code provided to me by my professor to load an R file. I have copied and pasted the file location from the file manager.

rm(list = ls())

#Import Packages
require(xlsx)

#Import Data
data <- read.xlsx("C:/Homework/Novice Data v2.xls", 1)

#Looking at the data types and overview of the data
str(data)

The return of this is: Error in loadWorkbook(file, password = password) :
Cannot find C:/Homework/Novice Data v2.xls

What am I doing wrong here? I have an assignment due and I cannot move to the next portion without getting over this hurdle.
Thanks in advance.

[andresrcs]

@Asimons07

Cannot find C:/Homework/Novice Data v2.xls

This means that R can't find that specific file on the given location. Double check the location and the precise name of the file (including the extension), have in mind that R is case sensitive.

[Asimons07]

I have copied as text from file manager. I have even tried file.exists(C:/Homework) and I get "+" as a return result. I apologize, I have about 5 hours of RStudio experience at this point.

[andresrcs]

Let's check what is inside that folder, run this command to get a list of the files.

list.files(path="C:\\Homework")

[Asimons07]

list.files(path="C:\Homework")
[1] "Novice Data v2.xls.R"

[andresrcs]

In case you haven't noticed, the file has double extension (i.e. .xls.R) this doesn't seem right, you should check on that, if this is an Excel file it should only have a .xls extension.