[R] Saving results from Linux command line

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

As the help files says, "...like the Unix program tee". I thought sink
only diverted to a file. Thanks! -Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:tlumley at u.washington.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 2:17 PM
> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Saving results from Linux command line
> 
> 
> There could still be functions that divert a copy of all the output to
> a
> file, for example.  And indeed there are.
> 
> sink("transcript.txt", split=TRUE)
> 
>  	-thomas
> 
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
> 
> > I looked long and hard for that information. Thank you VERY much! -
> Bob
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:rmh at temple.edu]
> >> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:52 PM
> >> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob); r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >> Subject: Re: [R] Saving results from Linux command line
> >>
> >> There can't be functions in the R language to save the transcript
> >> of a session.  In this respect R is a filter.  It takes an input
> >> stream of text and returns an output stream of text.  R doesn't
> >> remember
> >> the streams.  The Windows RGui remembers them.  The ESS *R* buffer
> >> remembers
> >> them.  Any terminal emulator could in principle remember them.
> >> R itself can't.
> >
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> Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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