You probably need to ask this on a RStudio forum but my guess is it is just a little 'refinement' that the RStudio people added. Similar in concept o the the matching "".
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: demmi...@gmail.com > Sent: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:51:24 -0600 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] write.csv file= question > > Hello, > > I have a quick question about the “file=“ specification for the command > write.csv. When I run this command in Rstudio I do not need the > “file=“ specified. For example the below command works just fine. > > write.csv(data,”/home/data.csv”) > > However when I am running an Rscript from the terminal and putting it in > the background I need to specify “file=“. So for the example above I > need to instead have > > write.csv(data,file=”/home/data.csv”) > > Any ideas why this is the case? Writing file= isn’t a problem, just > trying to get an idea of how R works better. > > Thanks! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.