This question is nearly impossible to answer without any context, since you have not provided us with the structure of your working directory here. This topic was automatically closed 21 days after the last reply. You may find that this software is a useful alternative to r. I found the directory with getwd and i had to supply the full path to the csv file, e. R studio cannot plot rstudio ide rstudio community. My understanding is that the script expects to be in documents. I mistakenly used xxclone to copy my laptop drive onto a 2tb hdd. Can anybody explain why r cannot read a certain file. Okay, i also think that the issue may be in gal file or in samplesinfo. This is a bit late but for anyone coming here for help, i got this error when i was trying to write a file from rstudio and my destination file path.