[R] How long can a csv file label be?

[Nick Wray]

Thanks Jim

> On 27 June 2018 at 23:48 Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi Nick,
> You are probably using Windows, for which the maximum path length is
> claimed to be 260 characters. The most common alternative, Linux, has
> a maximum filename length of 255 and a maximum path length of 4096. If
> you are simply writing a file to the current path, it won't make much
> difference.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Nick Wray via R-help
> <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> > Hi For various reasons too dull to go into I have been trying to write csv files from R with very long filenames. However R doesn't seem to like my doing this, but it is not clear to me what the maximum filename size is, and I can't find the info on the net. I believe that the maximum pathname is 255 characters but is that the same thing?
> >
> > Thanks if anyone can enlighten me
> >
> > Nick Wray
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