[R] basic inquiry regarding write.csv

[CJ Rubio]

thanks for your reply.. is there something wrong with the code i have?
because it doesn't write the file in the directory that i am using...

for (i in names(y))
>         {write.csv(y[[i]], file=paste(i, ".csv", sep=","))}

thanks again..



ronggui-2 wrote:
> 
> If the "file" is a relative path, then it should be in the working
> directory. Say, the working directory is E:/my_work_directory (of
> course, you can get it by getwd()), and you export a data frame "a" to
> csv by:
> write.csv(a, file="a.csv"), then the file should be
> "E:/my_work_directory/a.csv".
> 
> Best
> 
> 2009/2/18 CJ Rubio <cjrubio at kongju.ac.kr>:
>>
>> i have a loop which looks likes this:
>>
>>
>>> data.info <- rbind(data.info, cbind(station.id, year, date,
>>> max.discharge))
>> +  y <- split(data.info, data.info[station.id])
>> +  for (i in names(y))
>>         {write.csv(y[[i]], file=paste(i, ".csv", sep=","))}
>>
>> i am wondering, where the file (which i am about to write in .csv format)
>> will be saved? i looked at ?write.csv and it says there that :
>>
>> file                   either a character string naming a file or a
>> connection open for writing. "" indicates output to the console.
>>
>> correct me if i'm wrong but the way i undestand it is, i should have a
>> file
>> or a working directory where the .csv will be written.  if for example i
>> have a working directory "E:/my_work_directory", how can i save this
>> splitted files in the same directory?
>>
>> can anybody please enlighten me more with write.csv and the argument
>> file?
>>
>> thanks..
>>
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> 
> 
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