many thanks for the response. Rstudio seems to be a very clever & robust tool and i suspect that if R can do it (ie send text output to its own window) then Rstudio would probably handle it.
Can it be done in 'vanilla' R ? cheers Bob Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 05/03/2012 18:39 To Robert Kinley <kinley_rob...@lilly.com> cc r-help@r-project.org Subject Re: [R] how to send text output to its own window Sounds like a question for the RStudion people? Uwe Ligges On 05.03.2012 12:35, Robert Kinley wrote: > platform: R 2.14.2 - Windows XP - Rstudio > > When I use cat() or print() in a script, the output text is of course > mixed up with the lines of the script. > > I can sink() the output to a textfile and then play the file back at the > end of the script, but that's not really what I'm after. > > It would be nice if the lines of text output could appear in a separate > window, in the same sort of way that you'd use windows() for graphical > output. > > Apologies if I'm missing something obvious. > > Bob Kinley > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.