R 3.0.1
OS X
Colleagues,
I am experimenting with incorporating C code into R. After compiling the C
code with:
R CMD SHLIB -o FILE.so FILE.c
and executing:
dyn.load(“FILE.so”)
(without any errors), I execute the following R functions in a terminal window:
READSAS <- function(sourcefile) .C("readsas", sourcefile)
OUTPUT <- READSAS("../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat")
R / C then reads a sas7bdat file and sends the contents to the terminal window.
I expected OUTPUT to contain the text that appear in the terminal window (i.e.,
the contents of the file). But, that is not the case; OUTPUT contains:
[[1]]
[1] "../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat"
It is not clear to my how to capture that appears in the terminal window.
Ultimately, I may need to modify the C code so that the output goes to a file,
which I then read into R. However, it would be better if I did not need to
modify the C code.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can capture this output within R?
Dennis
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