Never mind, I found the answer to my own question. From the 2.11.0 change log:
o write.csv[2] no longer allow 'append' to be changed: as ever, direct calls to write.table() give more flexibility as well as more room for error. Jonathan On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Christensen <dzhona...@gmail.com>wrote: > Out of curiosity, is this a change in 2.11? I'm still runnning 2.10.1, > ?write.csv mentions the other options being ignored, but not append. This > might also explain why John Kane believes he has successfully used append > with write.csv in that past. > > Jonathan > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>wrote: > >> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Cliff Clive wrote: >> >> > >> > I'm running R 2.11.0 on a 32-bit Windows XP machine. Whenever I try to >> write >> > a csv file with 'append' set to TRUE, I get this message: attempt to set >> > 'append' ignored. >> > >> > Obviously, this is no good, since R is deleting my previously saved data >> > files, rather than appending to them. What can I do to fix this? >> >> >> Read ?write.csv more carefully: >> >> In the "CSV files" section: >> >> These wrappers are deliberately inflexible: they are designed to ensure >> that the correct conventions are used to write a valid file. Attempts to >> change append, col.names, sep, dec or qmethod are ignored, with a warning. >> >> >> If you want to use 'append', you will need to use write.table() and adjust >> the other arguments as you require. >> >> HTH, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.