Hello Duncan, David, and other R-help mailing list members. I found the solution using Greg Snow answer to this thread.
I wanted to have that so to help a blind person who asked on the mailing list how to direct R output to word. I wrote up a solution, and wrapped it with words. It is now published here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/05/helping-the-blind-use-r-by-exporting-r-console-to-word/ Thank you for offering your help. 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 1:26 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > Tal Galili wrote: > >> After reading more, I understand I didn't formulate my last question >> correctly, so please allow me to rephrase: >> >> What I am looking for is a way to save the R console session output. >> That is, a command that would combine the results of using: >> ?sink # And >> ?savehistory >> >> > > I think there's still some ambiguity in the question; I'll try to answer a > few versions. > > Do you want to run R normally, then afterwards save the console log? That > depends on what front end you're using. In the Windows GUI, you can do it > with > Ctrl-A to select everything in the console, then menu items File | Save to > file..., or just Ctrl-C to copy, and then paste it into Word. Similar > operations would work on a Mac. > > Do you want to run code in a way that writes it to a file without > displaying it to the screen? R CMD batch does that. > > Do you want to run just a few commands like that? Then try > > capture.output(source(stdin(), echo=TRUE)) > > This will accept commands from the console until it hits an EOF (Ctrl-Z on > Windows, I don't know on other systems, but Ctrl-D is a good guess) and will > return > the results in a character vector, which you could write to a file. > > Do you want to run R normally with output on screen, but also logging > everything to a file? I don't know how to do that in the R GUI in Windows, > but there are probably command line tools that could do it. > > Duncan Murdoch > > My motivation for this is that doing it will allow someone who is a blind >> user of R to be able to easily export his results to word so he could have >> word read him the text. >> I also imagine it might be useful for session login. >> >> Thanks, >> 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 12:20 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> 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. >> >> > > [[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.
