I am very new to programming and am working on the Google Data Analytics Certificate. I have looked everywhere for assistance to my issue and nothing has worked. (I have watched videos, searched stack overflow, queried kaggle, etc.)

I am working on the bellabeat capstone project and have been able to download the data files to my mac desktop.

My issue is that I am unable to import these data files into r, which I am running locally on my machine.

Based on the breadcrumb trail of where my files are located, I have been trying to run this code:

dailyActivity_merged <- read.csv(~"⁨Macintosh HD⁩/Users/.../googlecapstone_bellabeat_data/Fitabase_Data_20160412to20160512/dailyActivity_merged.csv")

I have received this error:

Error: bidi formatting not allowed (line 1), use escapes instead (\u2068)

Based on the "escapes" reference in the error statement, I have tried to change "/" to this "" and that hasn't worked.

Could someone please point me in the direction for a solution? If there are tutors available somewhere, I would be interested in hearing about that as well.

Thanks in advance for your attention.

RB

CodePudding user response：

Not sure if you need to explicitly define the file location for your project, but I usually don't. I use the following code to import files

dailyActivity_merged = read.csv(file.choose(),header = TRUE)

do not include anything in the parenthesis. You want to copy this line of code exactly.