[R-pkg-devel] Saving output of check()

[J C Nash]

Hi,

In trying to test that an upgrade to my optimx package does not break other
packages, I wanted to loop over a list of all such packages in alldep, with
nall the length of this list.

cat("Check the dependent packages\n")
for (ii in 1:nall){
  cpkg <- alldep[ii]
  dd <- "/home/john/temp/wrkopt/dlpkg"
  dlname <- download.packages(cpkg, destdir=dd )[[2]]
  cat("Downloaded ", dlname,"\n")
  cpkg.chk <- devtools::check_built(dlname)
  cat("Results package:",cpkg,"\n")
  print(cpkg.chk)
}

Before running this, I did

sink("dpkgcheck.txt", split=TRUE)

and afterwards, I did sink().

But ... none of the check output, nor the result of the final print, show
up in the output file dpkgcheck.txt.

Have I totally misunderstood sink(), or is there a nasty bug?

I've tried running in Rstudio and in the terminal. I'm running Linux Mint
18.3 Sylvia.

Linux john-j6-18 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
john at john-j6-18 ~ $ R

R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"


J C Nash