On 13-09-23 2:17 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
Is there any way to capture output (both stdout and stderr) from install.packages? Solutions like sink and capture.output don't work because the install.packages calls out to system2 which is executed in a separate process:test <- capture.output(install.packages("MASS")) The system2 function does have arguments stdout and stderr but afaik these cannot be controlled via install.packages. I'm a bit reluctant to start rolling my own version of install.packages just for this reason. Is there any way to somehow grab this output? Or alternatively, is there a way to make R pipe stdout and stderr from system2 in such a way that they can be captured with sink or capture.output in the R parent process?
See the recent thread <https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-September/067552.html> for an approach to this.
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