Message-ID: <6E2C9FF6-1E9F-4550-9B64-106AEE75790E@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-08-05T14:06:19Z
From: Brittany Demmitt
Subject: write.csv file= question
In-Reply-To: <CA+vqiLGcj_4EbmdHW6KHN3qwj0N5C9VBANbNhPO5D03rkepqsg@mail.gmail.com>
The trial ?test? script worked, as well as adding getwd() to my current script also fixed the problem. So it seems ?file=? isn?t necessary after all to run from the terminal.
Thanks everyone for your help! :-)
> On Aug 4, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>>> You probably need to ask this on a RStudio forum but my guess is it is just a little 'refinement' that the RStudio people added. Similar in concept o the the matching "".
>>
>> Really? write.csv(data,?/home/data.csv?) works for me in Rstudio, ESS,
>> Terminal, Rscript etc.
>
> Well, actually I misspoke. I don't actually have permission to write
> to "/home" on my system. But
>
> write.csv(data, "~/data.csv")
>
> works.
>
>>
>>>
>>> John Kane
>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: demmitba at gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:51:24 -0600
>>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] write.csv file= question
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a quick question about the ?file=? specification for the command
>>>> write.csv. When I run this command in Rstudio I do not need the
>>>> ?file=? specified. For example the below command works just fine.
>>>>
>>>> write.csv(data,?/home/data.csv?)
>>>>
>>>> However when I am running an Rscript from the terminal and putting it in
>>>> the background I need to specify ?file=?. So for the example above I
>>>> need to instead have
>>>>
>>>> write.csv(data,file=?/home/data.csv?)
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas why this is the case? Writing file= isn?t a problem, just
>>>> trying to get an idea of how R works better.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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