[R] Sink for a subdirectory

[Spencer Graves]

Did you specify the entire path, or only the ending segment?

spencer graves

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2003 21:38:14 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi, how do I sink output to a subdirectory under which R is running?
>>
>>For example, suppose R is running in ~me and I would like to sink output to
>>~me/Subdir/filename.
>>
>>The obvious sink( "Subdir/filename" ) does not seem to work.
> 
> 
> It works for me.  It would be helpful if you said what goes wrong, and
> what OS you're running in.
> 
> I'm guessing that Subdir doesn't exist; R won't create it.  I don't
> think there's a mkdir() function in R; you'll need to create the
> subdir outside of R, or use system() to do it.  For example, in
> Windows,
> 
> system('command /c mkdir Subdir')
> 
> would do it.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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