I don't have a file on my laptop, but an R image from one of my projects.
require(raster)
## Loading required package: raster
## Loading required package: sp
load("C:/Users/Ben/Dropbox/Shared Ben and Catherine/DimDivRevision/Results/DimDivRevision.RData")
# plot the raster, take away the axis ticks, and make it black and white
plot(elev.test, xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n", col = colorRampPalette(c("black", "white"))(255))
writeRaster(elev.test, "C:/Users/Ben/Dropbox/Species Pool - Cost Path/elev_raster")
## Error: C:/Users/Ben/Dropbox/Species Pool - Cost Path/elev_raster.grd
## exists. Use 'overwrite=TRUE' if you want to overwrite it
# it should read in just fine.
test <- raster("C:/Users/Ben/Dropbox/Species Pool - Cost Path/elev_raster")
plot(test)