[R] Can not save files

[Jeff Newmiller]

You are attempting to save a file on top of a directory, which is  fortunately protected from your mistake. Try adding a filename to the path you are saving to.

save(TheResults,file="c:\\users\\john\\documents\\test.rda")

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On December 31, 2014 8:22:43 PM PST, John Sorkin <JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>David,
>I checked getwd()
>and tried to save to the directory. It did not work:
>
>
>> getwd()
>[1] "C:/Users/John/Documents"
>> save(TheResults,file="c:\\users\\john\\documents")
>Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
>In addition: Warning message:
>In gzfile(file, "wb") :
> cannot open compressed file 'c:\users\john\documents', probable reason
>'Permission denied'
>> 
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>
>
>
>
>John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>Professor of Medicine
>Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
>Geriatric Medicine
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>>>> David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> 12/31/14 8:52 PM >>>
>
>On Dec 31, 2014, at 3:29 PM, John Sorkin wrote:
>
>> When I try to save a file, I get "Permission denied". 
>
>Because your OS does not allow you to save things there. Since you are
>specifying an absolute path, R is not using your working directory. You
>may want to read the help pages for:
>
>?normalizePath
>?getwd
>
>> 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'
>> 
>
>Permissions are not available on your machine at the Windows equivalent
>of the "root". You should educate yourself about your operating system.
>
>
>> 
>>> 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'
>> 
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>> 
>>> library(rstudio)
>>> versionInfo()
>> $version
>> [1] ‘0.98.953’
>> 
>> $mode
>> [1] "desktop"
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>> Professor of Medicine
>> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
>> snipped
>
>David Winsemius
>Alameda, CA, USA
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