[R] write.csv file= question

[Ista Zahn]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> You probably need to ask this on a RStudio forum but my guess is it is just a little 'refinement' that the RStudio people added. Similar in concept o the the matching "".

Really? write.csv(data,”/home/data.csv”) works for me in Rstudio, ESS,
Terminal, Rscript etc.

>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: demmitba at gmail.com
>> Sent: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:51:24 -0600
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] write.csv file= question
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a quick question about the “file=“ specification for the command
>> write.csv.    When I run this command in Rstudio I do not need the
>> “file=“ specified.  For example the below command works just fine.
>>
>> write.csv(data,”/home/data.csv”)
>>
>> However when I am running an Rscript from the terminal and putting it in
>> the background I need to specify “file=“.  So for the example above I
>> need to instead have
>>
>> write.csv(data,file=”/home/data.csv”)
>>
>> Any ideas why this is the case?  Writing file= isn’t a problem, just
>> trying to get an idea of how R works better.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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