title: Reading a file on a network in R
body: <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>