Hi Nick, You are probably using Windows, for which the maximum path length is claimed to be 260 characters. The most common alternative, Linux, has a maximum filename length of 255 and a maximum path length of 4096. If you are simply writing a file to the current path, it won't make much difference.
Jim On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Nick Wray via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi For various reasons too dull to go into I have been trying to write csv > files from R with very long filenames. However R doesn't seem to like my > doing this, but it is not clear to me what the maximum filename size is, and > I can't find the info on the net. I believe that the maximum pathname is 255 > characters but is that the same thing? > > Thanks if anyone can enlighten me > > Nick Wray > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
