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On December 31, 2014 3:29:05 PM PST, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: >When I try to save a file, I get "Permission denied". >Can someone let me know why this happens? > > >I am running under Windows 7, Rstudio > > >> save(TheResults,file="c:\\data") >Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection >In addition: Warning message: >In gzfile(file, "wb") : > cannot open compressed file 'c:\data', probable reason 'Permission >denied' > > >> save(TheResults,file="c:/data") >Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection >In addition: Warning message: >In gzfile(file, "wb") : > cannot open compressed file 'c:/data', probable reason 'Permission >denied' > > >> sessionInfo() >R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) >Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > >> library(rstudio) >> versionInfo() >$version >[1] ‘0.98.953’ > >$mode >[1] "desktop" > > >Thank you >John > > >John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >Professor of Medicine >Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics >University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and >Geriatric Medicine >Baltimore VA Medical Center >10 North Greene Street >GRECC (BT/18/GR) >Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >(Phone) 410-605-7119 >(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > > > > >John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >Professor of Medicine >Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics >University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and >Geriatric Medicine >Baltimore VA Medical Center >10 North Greene Street >GRECC (BT/18/GR) >Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >(Phone) 410-605-7119 >(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > >Confidentiality Statement: >This email message, including any attachments, is for t...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ R-help@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.