On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, hadley wickham wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Richard Pearson wrote:
Wacek, many thanks! I'm wondering however whether this will be problematic
on Windows (I have no windows box to hand to check this, but am creating a
package that I would like to be cross-platform)?
It will fail. But
sink(tempfile())
...
sink()
is portable (and sink("nul:") works on Windows only).
Or:
tc <- textConnection(NULL, "w")
sink(tc)
...
sink()
close(tc)
That is a lot more expensive and subject to
o Use of textConnection(NULL, mode="w") could segfault.
(NEWS for 2.7.1). Output textConnections are convenient, but have quite a
lot of overhead since they need to keep the character vector current.
Or
capture.output(...)
Again, expensive.
Hadley
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