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

[Talbot Katz]

Thank you for bringing your thread to my attention.  The discussion therein 
pretty much encapsulated what I was trying to find out.

--  TMK  --
212-460-5430	home
917-656-5351	cell



>From: "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <muenchen at utk.edu>
>To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>CC: "Talbot Katz" <topkatz at msn.com>
>Subject: RE: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:38 -0400
>
>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
>
>=========================================================
>Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager
>Statistical Consulting Center
>U of TN Office of Information Technology
>200 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37996-0520
>Voice: (865) 974-5230
>FAX: (865) 974-4810
>Email: muenchen at utk.edu
>Web: http://oit.utk.edu/scc,
>News: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/statnews.html
>=========================================================
>
>
> > -----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!
> >
> > --  TMK  --
> > 212-460-5430	home
> > 917-656-5351	cell
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> > guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.