If you are using Rgui (it should work under rterm) there is no C-level
'stdout' file stream (the normal state for Windows GUI programs), so no
way to capture it inside R.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, mel wrote:
> printf capture
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm running R-2.4.1 on WindowsXP.
> I wrote a small C++ DLL using Rprintf() and all works fine
> dyn.load(), is.loaded('f1'), Rprintf(), .C(), all is ok.
>
> Now, the worry :
> I use also a 3rd party piece of C++ program which was not designed
> for R and uses printf().
If you have the program, can you not edit it before compiling it?
Adding
#define printf Rprintf
will probably do the trick.
> I though on sink(...) before .C('f1'), but it doesn't work.
> I call sink(file="res.txt") and only the Rprintf() are catched
>
> Is there any way to however capture those printf() outputs ?
>
> Thanks for any hint/pointer (... and i apologize
> if i missed something obvious !).
>
> Vincent
>
> (for what may be worth, a "minimal" stuff is at www.khi.fr/IB/rp2)
>
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