It is not possible for the current working directory to begin with "../". That is like saying n=n-1, because once follow the two dots up to the next directory the two dots refer to the next directory up.
I don't think anyone in this list understands what is going on for you, so I recommend using the reprex package to create a confirmed-reproducible example and send that along so we can identify the bug or user error that is puzzling you. On September 13, 2018 3:42:26 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:33 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> >wrote: >> >> Neither ?sink nor ?capture.output indicates how the output file >can be >> specified to be in a directory other than the cwd. >> >> When the cwd is ../analyses/ and I want the output to be in >> ../analyses/stat-summaries/ how do I write this? >> >> sink('example-output.txt') >> print(summary(df)) >> sink() >> >> writes output to the current directory. My attempts to prefix the >file name >> with ./ or just / don't sit well with R. > >Hi welcome to R-help. Please help the helper(s) to help you by being >as explicit as possible what you've tried (i.e. cut'n'paste your >code), provide error messages (cut'n'paste) you get, if any, and/or >what you mean by "don't sit well with R" (that can mean many different >things). > >/Henrik > >> What is the proper syntax? >> >> TIA, >> >> Rich >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.