Currently comments (#) are ignored by txtStart and friends due to the task callback mechanism used. The txtComment function is available as a work around to insert comments into the output/commands.
I tried running date() as below and everything worked as expected (the comments were missing, but the date command and result were in the file. I am running on windows where it looks like you are running on unix or linux. Can you send your OS and version of R and TeachingDemos? Also what are the permissions on the logtest.txt file that is created? (I've seen problems where the permissions for a directory allowed the creating of a file, but the default permissions on the file then do not allow modification). -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Nobuaki Michihata > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:24 AM > To: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] Can I save my console contents automatically? > > Hello David and Greg, > Thank you for your suggestions. These really help me. > > I'm curious about txtStart function of TeachingDemos library. It looks > exactly what I need. > So I installed TeachingDemos library and tried following. > ----- > library(TeachingDemos) > setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/") > txtStart("logtest.txt", commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append = > FALSE) > > #Top of commands > date() > #End of commands > > txtStop() > --- > Then I got following outputs on my console window, but I only got a > null file named "logtest.txt". > I tried several times by trial and error, but I couldn't find the > solution to log outputs on the logtest.txt. > --- > > library(TeachingDemos) > > setwd("/Users/NOBU/Documents/R_data/") > > txtStart("logtest.txt", commands = TRUE, results = TRUE, append = > FALSE) > Output being copied to text file, > use txtStop to end > txt> > txt> #Top of commands > txt> date() > [1] "Thu Sep 16 07:16:29 2010" > txt> #End of commands > txt> > txt> txtStop() > > Thank you for your help! > Nobu > > > > 2010/9/14 Nobuaki Michihata <gha10...@gmail.com>: > > Dear All, > > I found a following solution from "http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/";. > > However this command can save only the result. > > Is there any good solution to save both commands themselves and the > results. > > Thank you for your help. > > > > sink("Filename_here.log", type=c("output","message"), split=TRUE) > > > > # Put commands here > > # However this method save only the results. > > > > sink() > > > > Nobu > > > >> Message: 33 > >> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:07:37 -0700 > >> From: Nobuaki Michihata <gha10...@gmail.com> > >> To: r-help@r-project.org, r-help@r-project.org > >> Subject: [R] Can I save my console contents automatically? > >> Message-ID: > >> <AANLkTimEZ-igqK6GzeYqERZaTg7m+chjbGJmAGmEL- > y...@mail.gmail.com> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> > >> Dear All, > >> > >> I'm using R for Mac OS X Cocoa GUI R version 2.11.1. > >> I can save contents of my console window by using "command + s", but > I > >> would like to do same thing using R commands. > >> My question is can I save the contents automatically by using R > editor > >> with some R commands. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> Nobu > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
