[R] write.csv file= question

[Brittany Demmitt]

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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