On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: >> 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 "". > > Really? write.csv(data,”/home/data.csv”) works for me in Rstudio, ESS, > Terminal, Rscript etc.
Well, actually I misspoke. I don't actually have permission to write to "/home" on my system. But write.csv(data, "~/data.csv") works. > >> >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
