[R] write.csv() : attempt to set 'append' ignored... Why?

[John Kane]

Use write.table() instead.  

I thought that I had used write.csv() with an append before but I cannot find an example. Perhaps append= is not available in write.csv



--- On Thu, 7/15/10, Cliff Clive <cliffclive at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Cliff Clive <cliffclive at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R] write.csv() : attempt to set 'append' ignored... Why?
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 10:41 AM
> 
> 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?
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