[R] sink() output to another directory

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:05 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, MacQueen, Don wrote:
>
> > In my experience, any path that can be used at the shell prompt in a
> > unix-alike can be used anywhere that R wants a file name.
>
> Don,
>
>    That's been my experiences, too.
>
> > Hopefully, that helps...
>
>    That's why I don't understand why the plot() function accepts the
> different directory while the sink() function (here) doesn't.
>
>    I showed R rejecting:
>
> sink('stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt')
> print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
> sink()
>
> while accepting:
>
> pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
>   <snip xyplot() function>
> plot(rain_est_se)
> dev.off()
>
>    Changing the sink() file to
> './stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt'
>
> generates the same error

"same error" as what? (ambiguity is the reason for not being able to
help you - all the replies in this thread this far are correct and on
the spot)

BTW, not that it should matter, what is your operating system and version of R?

/Henrik

> while I regularly use this syntax to copy files or
> specify the relative path to an executable file.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
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