[R] Can I save my console contents automatically?

[Greg Snow]

Currently comments (#) are ignored by txtStart and friends due to the task callback mechanism used.  The txtComment function is available as a work around to insert comments into the output/commands.

I tried running date() as below and everything worked as expected (the comments were missing, but the date command and result were in the file.  I am running on windows where it looks like you are running on unix or linux.  Can you send your OS and version of R and TeachingDemos?  Also what are the permissions on the logtest.txt file that is created? (I've seen problems where the permissions for a directory allowed the creating of a file, but the default permissions on the file then do not allow modification). 

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Nobuaki Michihata
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:24 AM
> To: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Can I save my console contents automatically?
> 
> Hello David and Greg,
> Thank you for your suggestions. These really help me.
> 
> I'm curious about txtStart function of TeachingDemos library. It looks
> exactly what I need.
> So I installed TeachingDemos library and tried following.
> -----
> library(TeachingDemos)
> setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
> txtStart("logtest.txt", commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append =
> FALSE)
> 
> #Top of commands
> date()
> #End of commands
> 
> txtStop()
> ---
> Then I got following outputs on my console window, but I only got a
> null file named "logtest.txt".
> I tried several times by trial and error, but I couldn't find the
> solution to log outputs on the logtest.txt.
> ---
> > library(TeachingDemos)
> > setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
> > txtStart("logtest.txt", commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append =
> FALSE)
> Output being copied to text file,
> use txtStop to end
> txt>
> txt> #Top of commands
> txt> date()
> [1] "Thu Sep 16 07:16:29 2010"
> txt> #End of commands
> txt>
> txt> txtStop()
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> Nobu
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/9/14 Nobuaki Michihata <gha10771 at gmail.com>:
> > 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()
> >
> > 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?
> >> Message-ID:
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> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>
> >> 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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