Like others in the referenced thread, I can reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with R 2.14.1 using R.app but it works just fine from the Terminal CLI so it's likely something in the GUI rather than R itself: I'll forward this to R-SIG-Mac and see if Simon (Urbanek) picks it up.
Michael On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Simon Kiss <sjk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all: > I'm trying to use the following code to get commands, comments and results to > a .txt file. It only appears to capture comments. When I comment those out > with #, it creates a NULL file. > Someone seemed to have a similar problem with a mac GUI > (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-September/253177.html) but the > result seemed to be ambiguous. Is there a work-around? Reproducible code and > sessioninfo are below. The OS is Mac OS 10.6.8. > > Yours truly, Simon Kiss > > install.packages("HSAUR") > library(HSAUR) > library(TeachingDemos) > data("Forbes2000", package="HSAUR") > #This is a test of R output for the blind > txtStart('test.txt', commands=TRUE, results=TRUE) > txtComment('This command provides the mean profit in the data set') > mean(Forbes2000$profits, na.rm=TRUE) > txtComment('This command provides the standard deviation of the profits data > set') > sd(Forbes2000$profits, na.rm=TRUE) > txtComment('This command provides the average profit by country') > aggregate(Forbes2000$profits, by=list(Forbes2000$country), function(x) > mean(x, na.rm=TRUE)) > txtStop() > > > SessionInfo() > > R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] TeachingDemos_2.7 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.13.2 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
