Unable to use an absolute path with `table/search path`

[kjshen]

Hello,

I've successfully used the table/search path option to specify a relative path to my table data, for example:

\pgfplotsset{
    table/search path={../data/}
}
\addplot+ table {dataset1/test_data.dat};

However, I was unable to use an absolute path such as

\pgfplotsset{
    table/search path={C:/Users/kjshen/data/}
}
\addplot+ table {dataset1/test_data.dat};

to plot data from a different directory.

Is there any mistake with my path specification or is the option only meant for relativ paths?

[hmenke]

Related? https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgfplots/issues/402

[kjshen]

Related? #402

I don't fully understand the workaround there and if it applies to this case

In my understanding, the workaround is for standalone plots in a different directory and not for reading .dat file.

[Mo-Gul]

The given example (of course with another data file and other paths) works perfectly fine for me. Which version of TikZ and PGFPlots are you using?

[kjshen]

Hi,

the example code I gave in my post was not correctly reflecting the path on my machine. I've now found that the path I was using contained empty spaces, so adding double quotes " resolved my issue.

This works fine:

\pgfplotsset{
    table/search path={C:/Users/"path with spaces"/data/}
}
\addplot+ table {dataset1/test_data.dat};

So just wrong end user application here. Thanks for looking into it!