# Can't upload data with gx\_get() in Rstudio tool or install GalaxyConnect into desktop R Studio

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**Category:** usegalaxy.eu support\
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**Created:** [January 29, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/cant-upload-data-with-gx-get-in-rstudio-tool-or-install-galaxyconnect-into-desktop-r-studio/11618 "2024-01-29T23:13:38Z")\
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> Even thought the import 1 ect message will pop up, no data files are being imported as far as I can tell.

There isn’t anything wrong here, but you need to assign the return value to some variable to be able to work with it, e.g.,

`my_data <- gx_get(2)`

Note: `gx_get()` makes the specified data available inside RStudio, but what’s returned by it is just a path to the data, for example the string `"/import/2"`.

With this path you can then read from the resource with R functions that you’d normally use to read your input, e.g., if your data is tabular you could do sth like:

`read.table(my_data, header=T, sep="\t", row.names = 1)`

which in this case is equivalent to:

`read.table("/import/2", header=T, sep="\t", row.names = 1)`

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