On Feb 2, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote:
> 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?
I wonder if this is a follow-up to the suggestion to look at ReadStat?:
https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat
I could imagine calling it from R but then directing results to a comma
separated file along the lines of the second example. If my guess is correct,
you might assist the R community and get valuable advice by posting your source
and Makefile on R-devel.
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David.
>
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>
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