Error: "cannot open the connection" when dataframe name contains a "."

[dillonhammill]

Error: "cannot open the connection" when dataframe name contains a "."

[DillonHammill]

It is not good practice to use . when naming objects in R, instead you should use _. The main reason for this is that . is used primarily when supplying the name of file and so mpg.1 looks like a file called mpg with an extension 1. As documented on the website, data_edit() can also read in files directly so when it sees mpg.1 it tries to read in a file with extension 1 for which the default reading function read.csv() will not work. Since data_edit() can support any reading/writing functions it is impossible to determine whether you are referring to an R object or a file.

[drcanak]

Good to know. Thank you for the quick and thoughtful reply.

[DillonHammill]

Happy to help! Have fun using DataEditR!

[DillonHammill]

@drcanak, in case anyone else encounters the same issue, I have just added a patch for this in DataEditR v0.1.3 which is available for download from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("DillonHammill/DataEditR")