[R] Can not save files

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 01:19:31 CET 2015


On 31/12/2014 6:29 PM, John Sorkin wrote:
> When I try to save a file, I get "Permission denied". 
> Can someone let me know why this happens?
> 
> 
> I am running under Windows 7, Rstudio
> 
> 
>> save(TheResults,file="c:\\data")
> Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In gzfile(file, "wb") :
>   cannot open compressed file 'c:\data', probable reason 'Permission
> denied'
> 
> 
>> save(TheResults,file="c:/data")
> Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In gzfile(file, "wb") :
>   cannot open compressed file 'c:/data', probable reason 'Permission
> denied'

Can you save to the file "c:\data" from within Notepad?  (You may need
the quotes to stop it from adding .txt on the end.)

Duncan Murdoch



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