David, I checked getwd() and tried to save to the directory. It did not work:
> getwd() [1] "C:/Users/John/Documents" > save(TheResults,file="c:\\users\\john\\documents") Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open compressed file 'c:\users\john\documents', probable reason 'Permission denied' > Any thoughts? Thanks, 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) >>> David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> 12/31/14 8:52 PM >>> 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 Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ______________________________________________ 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.
