[R] Can I save my console contents automatically?

[Greg Snow]

So it looks like the problem is with the mac GUI.  Here are a couple more things to test.

Try it with just sink and see if the output comes through.  Also try with some other functions besides date (maybe summary(rnorm(100))).

If there are other Mac users out there reading this, can some of you try as well and see if you get similar results?

-- 
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: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:03 AM
> To: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Can I save my console contents automatically?
> 
> Hello Greg,
> Thank you for your comment.
> I had a chance to use Windows GUI R and I found several interesting
> differences between Mac and Windows GUI R.
> 1. txtStart() command
>     - Windows GUI R - worked perfectly
>     - Mac GUI R version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) (both
> 32bit and 64bit) - only make a null file
>     - Mac R version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) on terminal
> window - worked perfectly
>    (I also checked the permissions, but they were OK.)
> 2. Console
>    - Mac GUI R   can display very long results and can save them from
> the file menu (manually).
>    - Windows GUI R can only short results and can save only the
> displayed results from the file menu.
> 3. sink()
>   - Mac GUI R  - split = TRUE worked.
>   - Windows GUI R -split = TRUE didn't work (log on the file, but
> didn't display the results on the console).
> 
> Thanks.
> Nobu
> 
> > 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:
> >> >>        <AANLkTimEZ-igqK6GzeYqERZaTg7m+chjbGJmAGmEL-
> >> yJ at mail.gmail.com>
> >> >> 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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