[R] Command equivalent of rgui "File, Save to File"?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 9/11/2006 3:57 PM, Michael Prager wrote:
> R 2.3.1 on Windows XP Professional.
> 
> I am writing some scripts to generate examples.  The Rgui menu
> item "File, Save to File" is helpful.  Is there perhaps an
> equivalent R function that can be incorporated into a script?

I think sink() is the closest you can get: set R to write to a file 
before generating whatever output you want to save.

The menu item writes out the GUI text buffer; the R core doesn't know 
what's in that buffer.  Other front ends don't have a buffer at all.

Of course, we could write an Rgui-specific C function that put that text 
into an R character vector so you could do what you liked with it, but 
since sink() exists and is portable, there isn't a lot of motivation to 
do that.  This will happen automatically if we ever get around to 
defining an abstract GUI interface all controllable and configurable 
from R, but I don't know anyone working on that right now.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Mike Prager
> Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
> Beaufort, North Carolina  USA
> 
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