> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of R. Michael Weylandt > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:52 PM > To: pmulonge > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Cannot write a dataframe to xls or csv Windows 7 > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, pmulonge > <resea...@namibia.pharmaccess.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a similar issue , but in my case I am using Windows 7 > > i try the following command to write a dataframe to xls using the > > xlsReadWrite package or the write.csv function > > write.xls(DATA,'Reg_IDcleaned.xls') > > or I will write.csv replacin the suffix with .csv > > I get absolutely no error message and the setwd appears at top of my code > > with absolute path
Immediately after the write.xls(..., file="something") run normalizePath("something", mustWork=TRUE) and it should give a full path to the file called "something". Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > > However when I look in the relevant folder ,the xls or cdv outfile is > > nowhere to be found. > > Is there a gremlin in the computer or what? > > It seems unlikely, but I suppose it can't be ruled out.... > > > Before, this write.xls was working fine and now it stopped, i used the > > write.csv to test if it was an error in the package. > > So since write.csv also fails to produce the oufile in .csv in the relevant > > folder, I am at my witts end > > > > Firstly, please do quote context: most of us don't read nabble and I > have no idea what "similar problem" you're having. (Well, actually, I > clicked the link and I do, but I'm not letting on) Secondly, can you > whip up a reproducible example? > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible- > example > > I see no reason why > > setwd("~") # Replace with appropriate Windows-ism > write.csv(data.frame(1:5, letters[1:5])) > > wouldn't work if you have the right permissions, but perhaps you are > doing something funny. > > Cheers, > Michael > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.