[R] How to print out console output

[jim holtman]

?capture.output
?sink

> x <- capture.output(runif(20))

> x
[1] " [1] 0.2730090246 0.4462614490 0.2382041477 0.9826505063
0.1556554718 0.3746872961"
[2] " [7] 0.6108254879 0.6617410595 0.6694177436 0.4650380281
0.0414420397 0.2307212995"
[3] "[13] 0.5338913775 0.9186298891 0.0006410333 0.8046684864
0.6205502201 0.5352788521"
[4] "[19] 0.4255279053 0.7711444888"
> cat(x, sep="\n")
 [1] 0.2730090246 0.4462614490 0.2382041477 0.9826505063 0.1556554718
0.3746872961
 [7] 0.6108254879 0.6617410595 0.6694177436 0.4650380281 0.0414420397
0.2307212995
[13] 0.5338913775 0.9186298891 0.0006410333 0.8046684864 0.6205502201
0.5352788521
[19] 0.4255279053 0.7711444888
>


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:44 AM, K. Elo <maillists at nic.fi> wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I am desperately looking for a solution for how to print out the console
> output to a standard printer. For example, I would like to print out the
> summary.lm() output, the output of different ftable-functions etc. I use R
> on a linux machine.
>
> The only ways so far have been to copy-paste the output into an external
> editor or to use sink() to redirect the output into a text file and then use
> shell commands to print out the file. Both ways work but are a bit laborious
> :)
>
> Many thanks in advance for Your help!
>
> Kind regards,
> Kimmo
>
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