[R] Interpreting script - write.csv

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Jhope wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am a beginner to R and a prof helped me with some script. I am  
> having
> trouble understanding the below line. Is it finding the file
> turtlehatch.csv? I do not have my working directory set to this  
> file. If so
> I tried ("file.choose") and it did not work.

I don't think you can use file.choose() to create a new file for output.

> R did nothing in response, no
> error message with this entry and the below entry.

It probably _did_ work. Generally R will report errors to the  
console.  You just don't know where to find it because it went to your  
working directory. Try this to find where it went:

getwd()

>
> Can you please help me interpret? :
>
> write.csv(data.to.analyze, "turtlehatch.csv", row.names=FALSE)
>
> Thanks,  J
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT