If the "file" is a relative path, then it should be in the working
directory. Say, the working directory is E:/my_work_directory (of
course, you can get it by getwd()), and you export a data frame "a" to
csv by:
write.csv(a, file="a.csv"), then the file should be
"E:/my_work_directory/a.csv".
Best
2009/2/18 CJ Rubio <cjru...@kongju.ac.kr>:
>
> i have a loop which looks likes this:
>
>
>> data.info <- rbind(data.info, cbind(station.id, year, date,
>> max.discharge))
> + y <- split(data.info, data.info[station.id])
> + for (i in names(y))
> {write.csv(y[[i]], file=paste(i, ".csv", sep=","))}
>
> i am wondering, where the file (which i am about to write in .csv format)
> will be saved? i looked at ?write.csv and it says there that :
>
> file either a character string naming a file or a
> connection open for writing. "" indicates output to the console.
>
> correct me if i'm wrong but the way i undestand it is, i should have a file
> or a working directory where the .csv will be written. if for example i
> have a working directory "E:/my_work_directory", how can i save this
> splitted files in the same directory?
>
> can anybody please enlighten me more with write.csv and the argument file?
>
> thanks..
>
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