Thank you so much, Yes I need to look up how to make a reproducible example, William I will try your advice, I believe this will be my salvation here, once I get my computer.
Pancho On Sep 13, 2012, at 23:59, "William Dunlap" <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > >> -----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.