Cannot write a dataframe to xls or csv Windows 7

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
Of R. Michael Weylandt
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:52 PM
To: pmulonge
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Cannot write a dataframe to xls or csv Windows 7

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, pmulonge
<research at namibia.pharmaccess.org> wrote:

Hello,
I have  a similar issue , but in my case I am using Windows 7
i try the following command to write a dataframe to xls using the
xlsReadWrite package or the write.csv function
write.xls(DATA,'Reg_IDcleaned.xls')
or I will write.csv replacin the suffix with .csv
I get absolutely no error message and the setwd appears at top of my code
with absolute path

Immediately after the write.xls(..., file="something") run
  normalizePath("something", mustWork=TRUE)
and it should give a full path to the file called "something".

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

However when I look in the relevant folder ,the xls or cdv outfile is
nowhere to be found.
Is there a gremlin in the computer or what?

It seems unlikely, but I suppose it can't be ruled out....

Before, this write.xls was working fine and now it stopped, i used the
write.csv to test if it was an error in the package.
So since write.csv also fails to produce the oufile in .csv in the relevant
folder, I am at my witts end

Firstly, please do quote context: most of us don't read nabble and I
have no idea what "similar problem" you're having. (Well, actually, I
clicked the link and I do, but I'm not letting on) Secondly, can you
whip up a reproducible example?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-
example

I see no reason why

setwd("~") # Replace with appropriate Windows-ism
write.csv(data.frame(1:5, letters[1:5]))

wouldn't work if you have the right permissions, but perhaps you are
doing something funny.

Cheers,
Michael