Message-ID: <866C1BD8-120A-40E5-9252-AEE2F641B985@plessthan.com>
Date: 2014-02-03T01:09:33Z
From: Dennis Fisher
Subject: Capturing output of a C executable
R 3.0.1
OS X
Colleagues,
I am experimenting with incorporating C code into R. After compiling the C code with:
R CMD SHLIB -o FILE.so FILE.c
and executing:
dyn.load(?FILE.so?)
(without any errors), I execute the following R functions in a terminal window:
READSAS <- function(sourcefile) .C("readsas", sourcefile)
OUTPUT <- READSAS("../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat")
R / C then reads a sas7bdat file and sends the contents to the terminal window.
I expected OUTPUT to contain the text that appear in the terminal window (i.e., the contents of the file). But, that is not the case; OUTPUT contains:
[[1]]
[1] "../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat"
It is not clear to my how to capture that appears in the terminal window.
Ultimately, I may need to modify the C code so that the output goes to a file, which I then read into R. However, it would be better if I did not need to modify the C code.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can capture this output within R?
Dennis
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