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 > 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.