Hi Charles, On 4/23/20 10:19, Charles Warden wrote:
My guess was that creating the temporary file in the working directory instead of another folder might help.
FWIW here are 2 important reasons for writing temporary stuff to tempdir() instead of the current working directory:
1. tempdir() is the only place that is guaranteed to be writable on every system. Yes the user home is very likely to be writable too but there is actually no guarantee and some systems have unconventional setups where it's not.
2. Whatever you put in tempdir() will automatically be removed at the end of the R session. Even though there are ways to achieve this with the temporary stuff you write in the user home, it's not automatic and hard to get right.
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