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.> > 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! >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? > Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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! >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? >> Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
The trial ?test? script worked, as well as adding getwd() to my current script also fixed the problem. So it seems ?file=? isn?t necessary after all to run from the terminal. Thanks everyone for your help! :-)> On Aug 4, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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! >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? >>> Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.