[R] Problems with Vista, R 2.5.0 and function save

[Prof Brian Ripley]

So you are running R somewhere in your file system where you do not have 
permission to write.

Did you create a shortcut with a working directory set as the rw-FAQ 
advised you to?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, "Maja Schröter" wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to make use of the save function but it did not work.
>
> I'm using vista and R 2.5.0, winzip is installed too.
>
> Here's the code (from example ?save):
>
>  > x <- runif(20)
>  > y <- list(a = 1, b = TRUE, c = "oops")
>  > save(x, y, file = "xy.Rdata")
>   Fehler in gzfile(file, "wb") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen
>    Zusätzlich: Warning message:
>    kann komprimierte Datei 'xy.Rdata' nicht öffnen
>
> Thank you so much for your help.
>
> Background: I want to crate a variable "masterfile" that I can start with data(masterfile) or attach(masterfile).
>
> I.g.
>
> Town<-c("London","Miami","Rio","Lansing")
> Pollution<-c("34","32","50","17")
> masterfile<-data.frame(Town,Pollution)
> save(masterfile,file="masterfile.Rda")
>
>
> Kindly regards,
>
> Maja Schröter
>

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