[R] how to send text output to its own window

[Uwe Ligges]

On 06.03.2012 10:37, Robert Kinley wrote:
> many thanks for the response.
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> Rstudio seems to be a very clever&  robust tool and i suspect that if R
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> do it (ie send text output to its own window) then Rstudio would probably
> handle it.
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> Can it be done in 'vanilla' R   ?


No, but you can sink() into another file, for example.


Uwe Ligges

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> Sounds like a question for the RStudion people?
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> On 05.03.2012 12:35, Robert Kinley wrote:
>> platform:  R 2.14.2   -    Windows XP -  Rstudio
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>> When I use cat()  or print()  in a script, the output text is of course
>> mixed up with the lines of the script.
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>> I can  sink()  the output to a textfile and then play the file back at
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>> end of the script, but that's not really what I'm after.
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>> It would be nice if the lines of text output could appear in a separate
>> window,  in the same sort of way that you'd use  windows() for graphical
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>> Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.
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>>           Bob Kinley
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