Hi all,
I am getting this error when I tried write output file using write.csv
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : cannot open the connection In addition: warning message: In file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : cannot open file 'C:/mypath/myfile.txt' : Permission denied
How to solve this ?
The most likely explanation is that this file is open in a different program (on Windows, only one program can modify a file at a time). Solution: close the other program.
If you're using the package {readr} in version 2.0, this might be the program causing the problem: when you call read_csv() or similar functions, they don't actually read the entire file, so they keep it open, meaning you can't overwrite it. This can be avoided with the option lazy = FALSE, or by installing readr 2.1 which changes the default (see here for more details).
Apart from that, it could be a direct problem of permissions: if the file is read-only, if it's in a system directory, or if it's in the Documents directory of another user, for example. You can try modifying it with the notepad to see if it's a permission problem.
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