On Dec 31, 2014, at 3:29 PM, John Sorkin wrote: > When I try to save a file, I get "Permission denied".
Because your OS does not allow you to save things there. Since you are specifying an absolute path, R is not using your working directory. You may want to read the help pages for: ?normalizePath ?getwd > 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' > Permissions are not available on your machine at the Windows equivalent of the "root". You should educate yourself about your operating system. > >> 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 > snipped David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
