Look at txtStart and friends in the TeachingDemos package as an alternative to sink that includes commands as well as output.
-- 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 Tal Galili > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:21 PM > To: David Winsemius > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Getting sink to work with "message" on R 2.11.0 - what > did I miss? > > Hi David, > > I want to get both the 4 and the "1+3" that created it. > > I am trying to help someone else on the mailing list that is looking > for a > way to "sink" the console into word, so he could have word read it to > him > (he is blind). > I know how to do the second part, but the first part (using sink with > the > commands, and not just the output), I am somehow missing... > > Best, > Tal > > > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) > | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------- > > > > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, David Winsemius > <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > > > On May 21, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Tal Galili wrote: > > > > Hi all, > >> > >> I am trying to use type message with sink, like this: > >> > >> sink("all.Rout", type="message") > >> 1+3 > >> > >> sink() > >> > >> readLines(con = "all.Rout") > >> > >> So to get the following output: > >> > >> 1+3 > >>> > >> [1] 4 > >> > >> Obviously this doesn't work. > >> > >> > > What are you trying to do? The sink help page has two rather dire > warnings > > about not using type="message", and using type="output would give > you what > > you ask: > > > > > sink("all.Rout", type="output") > > > > > 1+3 > > > > > > sink() > > > > > > readLines(con = "all.Rout") > > [1] "[1] 4" > > > > The extra "[1]" and quotes are from the readLines function, not from > > all.Rout. > > > > > > I tried some variations (based on the explanations in the help) but > am > >> missing something on how to make it work. > >> > >> Any suggestions? > >> > >> (p.s: I need this so to help Faiz Rasool in his latest post) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Tal > >> > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > > West Hartford, CT > > > > > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
