I'm trying to get the aspell function working in R on Windows 7. I've installed the Aspell binary and dictionary from here: http://aspell.net/win32/ and it works fine outside of R (ie I get a desktop icon which I can drag and drop text files onto and the spell check works as expected). I've added C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin to the system variable path in Environmental Variables.
When I run aspell in R:
x <- as.factor("my spelling is turrible")
aspell(x)
I get this error message:
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") :
cannot open file 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp8Oulj4\xshell2b479b97856': No such file or directory
I've tried a couple of different recommendations but nothing seems to be working. These being checking that factors are being used (Converting to factors) and checking if folder security is set to 'Full Control' (Aspell Dictionary can't be opened).
Does anyone have any pointers on where I'm going wrong?