txtStart creates a NULL file

Like others in the referenced thread, I can reproduce this on Mac OS X
10.5.8 with R 2.14.1 using R.app but it works just fine from the
Terminal CLI so it's likely something in the GUI rather than R itself:
I'll forward this to R-SIG-Mac and see if Simon (Urbanek) picks it up.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all:
I'm trying to use the following code to get commands, comments and results to a .txt file.  It only appears to capture comments. When I comment those out with #, it creates a NULL file.
Someone seemed to have a similar problem with a mac GUI (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-September/253177.html) but the result seemed to be ambiguous. Is there a work-around? Reproducible code and sessioninfo are below.   The OS is Mac OS 10.6.8.

Yours truly, Simon Kiss

install.packages("HSAUR")
library(HSAUR)
library(TeachingDemos)
data("Forbes2000", package="HSAUR")
#This is a test of R output for the blind
txtStart('test.txt', commands=TRUE, results=TRUE)
txtComment('This command provides the mean profit in the data set')
mean(Forbes2000$profits, na.rm=TRUE)
txtComment('This command provides the standard deviation of the profits data set')
sd(Forbes2000$profits, na.rm=TRUE)
txtComment('This command provides the average profit by country')
aggregate(Forbes2000$profits, by=list(Forbes2000$country), function(x) mean(x, na.rm=TRUE))
txtStop()


SessionInfo()

R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] TeachingDemos_2.7

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.13.2