-----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian D Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 24. november 2000 08:30 To: W. T. Woodard Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Session logging in Windows98? I despair of this! There is a Select All menu on the File | Edit menu, and on the console pop-up. This is absolutely standard Windows behaviour, as is the ability to drag a selection and the console scrolls. One point: the `interaction buffer' I presume means the console screen buffer. That is of limited size, and the oldest history is purged if necessary. You can only save what is left.
I think Brian is missing what the point is here. When working on a dataset in R, an important result is a fairly short piece of R-code that will do what you want to be done, when submitted in batch. That will typically be of magnitude about 2-5% of the lines that you actually do on the console. Sitting at the console you will typically know, when the next 5 commands you recall and paste etc. is IT. So at that point you would like to switch a tee() on, perhaps even with the facility to write the total session to one file and only the commands to another. Correct Brian, we can choose the manual way and scroll up the screen after the five lines, grab the output and save it to a file. And we can choose to take the .Rhistory and remove 98% of its contents to get what we are after. Which is what we to now, but automation is a great thing, now that we have this computer sitting in front of us... Bendix
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, W. T. Woodard wrote:
The suggested cut-and-paste requires laborious multiple cut-and-pastes for long sessions extending over multiple screens.
For the record, that's completely incorrect.
Will the new 1.2.0 menu item permit dumping the entire interaction buffer to the clipboard, or only a single screen?
Neither. It will save the whole console buffer, or whatever is highlighted, to a *file*.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
With 1.1.1, use cut-and-paste. With 1.2.0 there will be a
menu item to do
so.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, W. T. Woodard wrote:
I'd like to log all console I/O for an entire session
while maintaining
normal console I/O. I'm working in Windows98, RGui,
R1.1.1. The sink()
function is not the answer since it diverts output from
the console. In
the
RFAQ I see references to "...save the contents of the
interaction buffer
to
a file..." and in the R-Help Archive "...just save the
console output...".
I guess I've missed something somewhere, so I'd
appreciate it someone
could
I think you missed the menus, although I find this incredible. Now you know how to do cut-and-paste in Windows, I hope it will help you use other applications too.
tell me (a) how to save the contents of the interaction
buffer, or (b) how
to save the console output.
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