Reading a file on a network in R
<p>I am importing a csv file in to R using the read.csv method but get the following error.</p>

<pre><code>The network path is "\\shared\data\abc.csv"

read.csv("\\shared/data/abc.csv",header=T)
                    or 
read.csv("\\shared\\data\\abc.csv",header=T)
</code></pre>

<p>If I use copy paste the address in the address bar in the file explorer, it opens the file but R somehow cannot read it. What's the reason? Is it because the network name starts with <strong>"//"</strong> instead of traditional drive name like <strong>C,D</strong> etc?</p>