[R] using the sink() function in a for-look

[Tony Dell]

bingo. thanks Ralph.  


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tony dell
department of marine and tropical biology
james cook university
townsville, qld 4811 australia

[p] 07 47815751 or 47814520
[e] anthony.dell at jcu.edu.au 
[skype] anphony

-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf Turner [mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 1:20 PM
To: Tony Dell
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] using the sink() function in a for-look


On 1/05/2008, at 2:32 PM, Tony Dell wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i wanted to use the sink function to sequentially output regression 
> summaries within a for-loop. i must have something wrong somewhere (or 
> be using the sink function incorrectly), but can anyone help?

	<snip>

You need to ***print*** the output you want to see.

Typing ``x'' in an interactive environment causes the value of x to be
printed.  But in a non-interactive environment (inside a function such as
source() or a for loop) it doesn't, and you need to say ``print(x)''.

Trap for young players.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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