no such file or directory when animint(out.dir="something")

[tdhock]

library(animint2)
data(WorldBank)
not.na <- subset(WorldBank, !(is.na(life.expectancy) | is.na(fertility.rate)))
subset(not.na, is.na(not.na$population))
subset(not.na, country == "Kuwait" & 1991 <= year & year <= 1995)
not.na[not.na$country=="Kuwait", "population"] <- 1700000
BOTH <- function(df, top, side){
  data.frame(df,
             top=factor(top, c("Fertility rate", "Years")),
             side=factor(side, c("Years", "Life expectancy")))
}
TS <- function(df)BOTH(df, "Years", "Life expectancy")
SCATTER <- function(df)BOTH(df, "Fertility rate", "Life expectancy")
TS2 <- function(df)BOTH(df, "Fertility rate", "Years")
years <- unique(not.na[, "year", drop=FALSE])
by.country <- split(not.na, not.na$country)
min.years <- do.call(rbind, lapply(by.country, subset, year == min(year)))
min.years$year <- 1958
animint(
  ts=ggplot()+
    theme_bw()+
    theme(panel.margin=grid::unit(0, "lines"))+
    xlab("")+
    ylab("")+
    geom_tallrect(aes(
      xmin=year-1/2, xmax=year+1/2),
      clickSelects="year",
      data=TS(years), alpha=1/2)+
    theme_animint(width=1000, height=800)+
    geom_line(aes(
      year, life.expectancy, group=country, colour=region),
      clickSelects="country",
      data=TS(not.na), size=4, alpha=3/5)+
    geom_point(aes(
      year, life.expectancy, color=region, size=population),
      showSelected="country", clickSelects="country",
      data=TS(not.na))+
    geom_text(aes(
      year, life.expectancy, colour=region, label=country),
      showSelected="country",
      clickSelects="country",
      data=TS(min.years), hjust=1)+
    geom_widerect(aes(
      ymin=year-1/2, ymax=year+1/2),
      clickSelects="year",
      data=TS2(years), alpha=1/2)+
    geom_path(aes(
      fertility.rate, year, group=country, colour=region),
      clickSelects="country",
      data=TS2(not.na), size=4, alpha=3/5)+
    geom_point(aes(
      fertility.rate, year, color=region, size=population),
      showSelected="country", clickSelects="country",
      data=TS2(not.na))+
    geom_point(aes(
      fertility.rate, life.expectancy, colour=region, size=population,
      key=country), # key aesthetic for animated transitions!
      clickSelects="country",
      showSelected="year",
      data=SCATTER(not.na))+
    geom_text(aes(
      fertility.rate, life.expectancy, label=country,
      key=country), #also use key here!
      showSelected=c("country", "year", "region"),
      clickSelects="country",
      data=SCATTER(not.na))+
    scale_size_animint(breaks=10^(9:5))+
    facet_grid(side ~ top, scales="free")+
    geom_text(aes(
      5, 85, label=paste0("year = ", year),
      key=1),
      showSelected="year",
      data=SCATTER(years)),
  time=list(variable="year", ms=3000),
  duration=list(year=1000),
  first=list(year=1975, country=c("United States", "Vietnam")),
  selector.types=list(country="multiple"),
  title="World Bank data (multiple selection, facets)",
  out.dir="WorldBank-facets")

The above gives:

Error in data.table::fwrite(x, file.path(meta$out.dir, csv.name), quote = FALSE,  : 
  No such file or directory: 'WorldBank-facets/geom1_tallrect_ts_chunk1.tsv'. Unable to create new file for writing (it does not exist already). Do you have permission to write here, is there space on the disk and does the path exist?

I expected this should work and create the WorldBank-facets directory, what is going on?
This should be added as a test case.
Removing out.dir from the above code does work.

[Tushar98644]

I am not able to reproduce the issue , in my case out.dir option creates a directory for the output files if not already present (overrides the older output if present)

[busttech]

I am also not able to reproduce this issue ,In my system after using out.dir option it create a directory.

[tdhock]

maybe the current working directory was somewhere that is not writable. in that case the error message could be improved. "No such file or directory: 'WorldBank-facets/geom1_tallrect_ts_chunk1.tsv'. Unable" could show the absolute path to WorldBank-facets dir.

[busttech]

Sir is this a file in which we have to make changes (from code line 968)-->

If yes then these are the code changes we have to do in it -->

[tdhock]

please avoid screenshots of code (difficult to search) and instead link and quote

[tdhock]

normalizePath(meta$out.dir) ?

please add a test