[R] capturing the result of print in a variable?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

mmiller3 at iupui.edu (Michael A. Miller) writes:

> I'd like to capture the results of a print() command so that I
> can put the results in a tktext widget.  I know I can redirect
> the output to a file with sink.  I'm looking for something like
> that, but where I can redirect the output into a variable.  Is
> there a way to do that?

You can sink() to a textConnection. I might prefer just to use a
temporary file, though...

t<-textConnection("xxx","w")
sink(t)
ls("package:base")
sink()
library(tcltk)
tkpack(txt<-tktext(tt<-tktoplevel()))
tkinsert(txt, "end", (paste(xxx,"\n",collapse="")))


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