You are attempting to save a file on top of a directory, which is fortunately protected from your mistake. Try adding a filename to the path you are saving to.
save(TheResults,file="c:\\users\\john\\documents\\test.rda") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On December 31, 2014 8:22:43 PM PST, John Sorkin <[email protected]> wrote: >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 <[email protected]> 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 t...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
