[R] write.csv file= question

[Ista Zahn]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at 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: demmitba at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:51:24 -0600
>>> To: r-help at 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!
>>>
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