The original poster did not say what operating system was being used.  From
my own experience on Windows, I always used "/" for reading from the local
hard drive, but when I started working with Windows network shares/folders,
I had to switch back to "\\" due to an unknown "feature" (bug?).

Kevin


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Peter Langfelder <
peter.langfelder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Stuart Jaffe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I'm trying to write a file to a shared drive on a network. I use the
> > "write.csv" function with the correct path but R doesn't recognize the
> > directory. Is there something different I have to do since it's a shared
> > drive?
> > Thanks.
>
> Check that you actually do have permissions to write to the directory
> you want to write to, and that the directory name is correct (remember
> that R always uses forward slashes in paths). Also, IIRC you need the
> permissions to see (read) all parent directories of the directory you
> want to write to.
>
> Peter
>
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