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Markus Graf
Markus Graf

Reputation: 533

Save the output of an r script including its commands

I want to save a part of my r script output including the commands into a text file. I know sink() but it does not include the commands or I could not find a specific option to do that.

Is there any possibility to capture the commands and its ouput within an r session. Simply write an Rmd or capture the output within the console is not the solution at the moment.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5071

Answers (2)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 44525

If you're working interactively, here's one idea. It was this specific problem for which I created the sinkstart() function in the rite package. Basically, this creates a pop-up tcl/tk widget that you can write commands and output to. Here's a screenshot to give you a feel:

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There are just two relevant functions: sinkstart() starts the sink; sinkstop() turns it off. You can toggle back and forth to selectively write to the widget. Then you can just save the contents with a right-click or a key shortcut.

Upvotes: 1

Patrick Kostjens
Patrick Kostjens

Reputation: 5105

You are probably looking for the TeachingDemos package. Documentation can be found here.

Example:

library(TeachingDemos)

txtStart("test.txt")
# Your code
txtStop()

This should write both your command input and output to a file called test.txt.

Upvotes: 7

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