From: "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <muenchen at utk.edu>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
CC: "Talbot Katz" <topkatz at msn.com>
Subject: RE: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:38 -0400
Hi Talbot,
I just had that question a couple of weeks ago. Here's the thread:
RSiteSearch("Saving results from Linux command line")
Thomas Lumley concluded with:
There could still be functions that divert a copy of all the output to a
file, for example. And indeed there are.
sink("transcript.txt", split=TRUE)
And you're right, you do this at the start, or put it in your .Rprofile
so you don't have to remember it each time. The UNIX tee command does
this as well.
Cheers,
Bob
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Talbot Katz
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:05 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
Hi.
There was an interesting thread about a year ago, called 'Command
equivalent of rgui "File, Save to File"?'
(http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/09/0553.html) started by
Michael Prager, and contributed to by Duncan Murdoch (I didn't notice
anything beyond the four entries they posted). The question was how
replicate programmatically the "Save to File..." option on the File
menu.
The closest answers given involved either running in batch or using
sink() command. Perhaps I don't understand the sink() command well
enough,
but it appears to me that you have to set it up before you run
commands, and
that it can't be used to save command output from commands that were
already
run; am I right about this? Whereas the "Save to File..." command
scoops up
everything that's still in the console. Here is my problem. I am
running R
on Linux in a VNC window. I'd like to save my console output, but
there
doesn't appear to be a File menu available and I didn't start out with
the
sink() command. Is there any way to replicate "Save to File..." in
this
situation? Thanks!
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