[R] Newbie:Export Data into Excel from R

[David Winsemius]

Keizer_71 <christophe.lo at gmail.com> wrote in
news:15788950.post at talk.nabble.com: 


> All i want is to export my list into c: drive and save it as csv
> file and manually import into Excel.
> 
> I have the read the article but i am having issues
> http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/library/base/html/write.table.html
> 
> 
>> excel<-write.table(probe_gene, file = "c:\foo.csv", sep = ",",
>> col.names = NA)
> Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
> 
>         unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file 'c:\foo.csv', reason 'Invalid argument' 
> 
> any suggestions?
> 

One can use the file.choose() function  in place of a quoted file name. I 
do so because it gets around the "\", "/", "\\" confusion in my brain, 
... and it's faster. 

R does not use solitary "\"'s in its filenames for directory separation. 
It's the <escape> character for regular expressions, and R's development 
in the *nix world trumped any need to be consistent with the dark side's 
use of "\" as a directory separator. You can use single "/" as well as 
"\\"


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David Winsemius