Thank you for bringing your thread to my attention. The discussion therein
pretty much encapsulated what I was trying to find out.
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>From: "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "Talbot Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:38 -0400
>
>Hi Talbot,
>
>I just had that question a couple of weeks ago. Here's the thread:
>
>RSiteSearch("Saving results from Linux command line")
>
>Thomas Lumley concluded with:
>
>There could still be functions that divert a copy of all the output to a
>file, for example. And indeed there are.
>
>sink("transcript.txt", split=TRUE)
>
>And you're right, you do this at the start, or put it in your .Rprofile
>so you don't have to remember it each time. The UNIX tee command does
>this as well.
>
>Cheers,
>Bob
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Talbot Katz
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:05 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [R] "Save to File..." option on File menu
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > There was an interesting thread about a year ago, called 'Command
> > equivalent of rgui "File, Save to File"?'
> > (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/09/0553.html) started by
> > Michael Prager, and contributed to by Duncan Murdoch (I didn't notice
> > anything beyond the four entries they posted). The question was how
>to
> > replicate programmatically the "Save to File..." option on the File
> > menu.
> > The closest answers given involved either running in batch or using
>the
> > sink() command. Perhaps I don't understand the sink() command well
> > enough,
> > but it appears to me that you have to set it up before you run
> > commands, and
> > that it can't be used to save command output from commands that were
> > already
> > run; am I right about this? Whereas the "Save to File..." command
> > scoops up
> > everything that's still in the console. Here is my problem. I am
> > running R
> > on Linux in a VNC window. I'd like to save my console output, but
> > there
> > doesn't appear to be a File menu available and I didn't start out with
> > the
> > sink() command. Is there any way to replicate "Save to File..." in
> > this
> > situation? Thanks!
> >
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