Hello Greg and David,
Thank you for your help!
I forgot to write about my Mac OS version.
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.4.0
version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
I tried three examples. Here are the results.
Thank you.
*** ex1. commands ***
#! /usr/bin/Rscript
library(TeachingDemos)
txtStart("mylog.txt",commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append = FALSE)
setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
summary(rnorm(100))
txtStop()
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- Mac (Terminal) - The following are contents of "mylog.txt".
> setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
> summary(rnorm(100))
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-2.15000 -0.59020 0.07895 0.02149 0.72740 2.40600
- Mac GUI - it could make a file named "mylog.txt", but it was empty.
The results appeared only on the console.
*** ex2. commands ***
#! /usr/bin/Rscript
sink("mylog.txt",type=c("output","message"), append = FALSE, split = TRUE)
setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
summary(rnorm(100))
sink()
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- Both Mac terminal and GUI made same "mylog.txt" and the contents are
following.
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-2.51600 -0.50140 -0.08050 -0.01629 0.56730 2.33300
*** ex3. commands ***
#! /usr/bin/Rscript
library(TeachingDemos)
etxtStart(file = "mylog.txt",commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append = FALSE)
setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
summary(rnorm(100))
x <- rnorm(25)
stem(x)
summary(x)
hist(x)
etxtPlot()
etxtStop()
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- MAC Terminal
--The following are results on terminal window.
Mac:R_data NOBU$ ./ex3.R
Output being copied to text file,
use etxtStop to end
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-2.44300 -0.63420 -0.09356 -0.08056 0.47130 1.70200
The decimal point is at the |
-1 | 94311
-0 | 998665542
0 | 02234556
1 | 046
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-1.9340 -0.9348 -0.3509 -0.2304 0.4410 1.5610
Error in dev.copy2eps(file = file, height = height, width = width) :
can only print from a screen device
Calls: etxtPlot -> dev.copy2eps
Execution halted
-- The commands on Mac Terminal created only "Rplots.pdf" in R_data
folder, but no log files include "mylog.txt".
Rplots.pdf's content was a histogram without any problems.
- Mac GUI
--The following is results on GUI's console. GUI R also created a
histogram on the Quartz window.
> #! /usr/bin/Rscript
> library(TeachingDemos)
> etxtStart(file = "mylog.txt",commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append = FALSE)
Output being copied to text file,
use etxtStop to end
etxt> setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/")
etxt> summary(rnorm(100))
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-2.11000 -0.72410 0.07676 0.08015 0.81520 2.65300
etxt> x <- rnorm(25)
etxt> stem(x)
The decimal point is at the |
-2 | 1
-1 | 5430
-0 | 9863310
0 | 1122466
1 | 12369
2 | 3
etxt> summary(x)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-2.05100 -0.77830 0.09595 0.05258 0.61970 2.32000
etxt> hist(x)
etxt> etxtPlot()
etxt> etxtStop()
[1] "/var/folders/An/AnuajzKqHdysO4TFKDOvOk+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpDlaRj8/etxt10d63af1/mylog.txt"
-- The commands on Mac GUI created a folder named "etxt10d63af1" which
contains two files including "mylog.txt" and "plot60b7acd9.eps".
However this didn't create any folders or files in R_data.
-- The content of "mylog.txt" is following.