[R] "Save to File..." option on File menu

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

Hi Talbot,

I just had that question a couple of weeks ago. Here's the thread:

RSiteSearch("Saving results from Linux command line")

Thomas Lumley concluded with:

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)

And you're right, you do this at the start, or put it in your .Rprofile
so you don't have to remember it each time. The UNIX tee command does
this as well.

Cheers,
Bob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Talbot Katz
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:05 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
> 
> Hi.
> 
> There was an interesting thread about a year ago, called  'Command
> equivalent of rgui "File, Save to File"?'
> (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/09/0553.html) started by
> Michael Prager, and contributed to by Duncan Murdoch (I didn't notice
> anything beyond the four entries they posted).  The question was how
to
> replicate programmatically the "Save to File..." option on the File
> menu.
> The closest answers given involved either running in batch or using
the
> sink() command.  Perhaps I don't understand the sink() command well
> enough,
> but it appears to me that you have to set it up before you run
> commands, and
> that it can't be used to save command output from commands that were
> already
> run; am I right about this?  Whereas the "Save to File..." command
> scoops up
> everything that's still in the console.  Here is my problem.  I am
> running R
> on Linux in a VNC window.  I'd like to save my console output, but
> there
> doesn't appear to be a File menu available and I didn't start out with
> the
> sink() command.  Is there any way to replicate "Save to File..." in
> this
> situation?  Thanks!
> 
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