I actually got it to do what I want running my R routine through a batch file. It saves to a file everything on the console. Thanks for 
your suggestions.

Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA
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>________________________________
>From: Vivek Singh <vksingh.iiitb@gmail.com>
>To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net> 
>Cc: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico@yahoo.com>; r-help help <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> 
>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [R] save to file
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>try the following. it works for linux:
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>$ R|tee log.txt
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>I stored the log for a small period.
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>R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
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>> q()
>Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
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>On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>On Dec 16, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote:
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>>> Well, I am going to give copies of an application to different offices and want to be able to generate an output file
>>> in the event that an error would ocurr while running the different R routines. By saving the entire R console along with the
>>> R version, I should be able to see where the error ocurred. I've seen text files with every single text from the R console but can't find
>>> the way to capture that.
>>
>>Most consoles will accept cmd-A or similar to select all text in a console session. Figure out what that keystroke combo is for your OS and then ctl- or cmd-C and paste into text editor.
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