[R] Can I save my console contents automatically?

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Nobuaki Michihata wrote:

> Dear All,
> I found a following solution from "http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/".
> However this command can save only the result.
> Is there any good solution to save both commands themselves and the  
> results.
> Thank you for your help.
>
> sink("Filename_here.log", type=c("output","message"), split=TRUE)
>
> # Put commands here
> # However this method save only the results.
>
> sink()

?capture.output

But it won't work for material that is already laid down... only works  
forward in time.

-- 
David.
>
> Nobu
>
>> Message: 33
>> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:07:37 -0700
>> From: Nobuaki Michihata <gha10771 at gmail.com>
>> To: r-help at r-project.org, r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Can I save my console contents automatically?
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>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm using R for Mac OS X Cocoa GUI R version 2.11.1.
>> I can save contents of my console window by using "command + s",  
>> but I
>> would like to do same thing using R commands.
>> My question is can I save the contents automatically by using R  
>> editor
>> with some R commands.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Nobu
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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