[R] running a .r script and saving the output to a file

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Gagan Pabla wrote:

> I  first I saved the following commands in a whatever.r file.
>
> data<-read.csv(file="whatever.csv", head=TRUE, sep=",")

#this is where you put the first sink:
> sink("comm.docx")   # but it is not going to be in .docx format, but  
> in text format.
>
> summary(data$SQFT)
> hist(data$STAMP)
> hist(data$STAMP, col='blue')
> hist(data$SHIP, col='blue')
>
# to get back output to the console, you close the "sunken" output file.
sink()

None of this will get you histograms, however. Sink does not deal with  
those. For that you need Sweave or odfWeave.

-- 
David Winsemius
> then I clicked File Menu-> source and chose  whatever.r, it runs the
> commands and produces the histograms and stuff.
> then I did
> sink("comm.docx")
> sink()
>
> It creates an empty file "comm.docx". Now my problem is that I want  
> to run
> the commands in whatever.r file( this part is working )  and then  
> save the
> output(has graphs hists etc) in a file.
>
> How do I do that ? Your help will be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Gagan
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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