Hello Duncan, David, and other R-help mailing list members.

I found the solution using Greg Snow answer to this thread.

I wanted to have that so to help a blind person who asked on the mailing
list how to direct R output to word.

I wrote up a solution, and wrapped it with words.  It is now published here:
http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/05/helping-the-blind-use-r-by-exporting-r-console-to-word/

Thank you for offering your help.

Best,
Tal

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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> Tal Galili wrote:
>
>> After reading more, I understand I didn't formulate my last question
>> correctly, so please allow me to rephrase:
>>
>> What I am looking for is a way to save the R console session output.
>> That is, a command that would combine the results of using:
>> ?sink   # And
>> ?savehistory
>>
>>
>
> I think there's still some ambiguity in the question; I'll try to answer a
> few versions.
>
> Do you want to run R normally, then afterwards save the console log?  That
> depends on what front end you're using.  In the Windows GUI, you can do it
> with
> Ctrl-A to select everything in the console, then menu items File | Save to
> file..., or just Ctrl-C to copy, and then paste it into Word.  Similar
> operations would work on a Mac.
>
> Do you want to run code in a way that writes it to a file without
> displaying it to the screen?  R CMD batch does that.
>
> Do you want to run just a few commands like that? Then try
>
> capture.output(source(stdin(), echo=TRUE))
>
> This will accept commands from the console until it hits an EOF (Ctrl-Z on
> Windows, I don't know on other systems, but Ctrl-D is a good guess) and will
> return
> the results in a character vector, which you could write to a file.
>
> Do you want to run R normally with output on screen, but also logging
> everything to a file?  I don't know how to do that in the R GUI in Windows,
> but there are probably command line tools that could do it.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>   My motivation for this is that doing it will allow someone who is a blind
>> user of R to be able to easily export his results to word so he could have
>> word read him the text.
>> I also imagine it might be useful for session login.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tal
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> I want to get both the 4 and the "1+3" that created it.
>>>
>>> I am trying to help someone else on the mailing list that is looking for
>>> a
>>> way to "sink" the console into word, so he could have word read it to him
>>> (he is blind).
>>> I know how to do the second part, but the first part (using sink with the
>>> commands, and not just the output), I am somehow missing...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Tal
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, David Winsemius <
>>> dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 21, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to use type message with sink, like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> sink("all.Rout", type="message")
>>>>> 1+3
>>>>>
>>>>> sink()
>>>>>
>>>>> readLines(con = "all.Rout")
>>>>>
>>>>> So to get the following output:
>>>>>
>>>>>  1+3
>>>>>        [1] 4
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously this doesn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What are you trying to do? The sink help page has two rather dire
>>>> warnings
>>>> about not using type="message",  and using type="output would give you
>>>> what
>>>> you ask:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sink("all.Rout", type="output")
>>>>>        1+3
>>>>>
>>>>> sink()
>>>>>
>>>>> readLines(con = "all.Rout")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> [1] "[1] 4"
>>>>
>>>> The extra "[1]" and quotes are from the readLines function, not from
>>>> all.Rout.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I tried some variations (based on the explanations in the help) but am
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> missing something on how to make it work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> (p.s: I need this so to help Faiz Rasool in his latest post)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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