R help - Jan 2012 - Interpreting script - write.csv

Hi All, 

I am a beginner to R and a prof helped me with some script. I am having
trouble understanding the below line. Is it finding the file
turtlehatch.csv? I do not have my working directory set to this file. If so
I tried ("file.choose") and it did not work. R did nothing in
response, no
error message with this entry and the below entry. 

Can you please help me interpret? :

write.csv(data.to.analyze, "turtlehatch.csv", row.names=FALSE)

Thanks,  J

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On 19-01-2012, at 04:48, Jhope wrote:
> Hi All, 
> 
> I am a beginner to R and a prof helped me with some script. I am having
> trouble understanding the below line. Is it finding the file
> turtlehatch.csv? I do not have my working directory set to this file. If so
> I tried ("file.choose") and it did not work. R did nothing in
response, no
> error message with this entry and the below entry. 
> 
> Can you please help me interpret? :
> 
> write.csv(data.to.analyze, "turtlehatch.csv", row.names=FALSE)

Read the help for write.csv.

?write.csv

Berend

On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Jhope wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a beginner to R and a prof helped me with some script. I am  
> having
> trouble understanding the below line. Is it finding the file
> turtlehatch.csv? I do not have my working directory set to this  
> file. If so
> I tried ("file.choose") and it did not work.
I don't think you can use file.choose() to create a new file for output.
> R did nothing in response, no
> error message with this entry and the below entry.
It probably _did_ work. Generally R will report errors to the  
console.  You just don't know where to find it because it went to your  
working directory. Try this to find where it went:

getwd()
>
> Can you please help me interpret? :
>
> write.csv(data.to.analyze, "turtlehatch.csv", row.names=FALSE)
>
> Thanks,  J
>
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