What type of system are you running on? You can create a textConnection and maybe 'pipe' the output to 'lpr' if you are running on UNIX. On Windows there is probably a way of connecting to a printer; you can save the file and then execute the PRINT command.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:51 AM, K. Elo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks, Jim, for Your quick answer. But my question was how to (re)direct > the output to a printer. > > Kind regards, > Kimmo > > > jim holtman wrote: >> >> ?capture.output >> ?sink >> >>> x <- capture.output(runif(20)) >> >>> x >> >> [1] " [1] 0.2730090246 0.4462614490 0.2382041477 0.9826505063 >> 0.1556554718 0.3746872961" >> [2] " [7] 0.6108254879 0.6617410595 0.6694177436 0.4650380281 >> 0.0414420397 0.2307212995" >> [3] "[13] 0.5338913775 0.9186298891 0.0006410333 0.8046684864 >> 0.6205502201 0.5352788521" >> [4] "[19] 0.4255279053 0.7711444888" >>> >>> cat(x, sep="\n") >> >> [1] 0.2730090246 0.4462614490 0.2382041477 0.9826505063 0.1556554718 >> 0.3746872961 >> [7] 0.6108254879 0.6617410595 0.6694177436 0.4650380281 0.0414420397 >> 0.2307212995 >> [13] 0.5338913775 0.9186298891 0.0006410333 0.8046684864 0.6205502201 >> 0.5352788521 >> [19] 0.4255279053 0.7711444888 >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:44 AM, K. Elo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear R-helpers, >>> >>> I am desperately looking for a solution for how to print out the console >>> output to a standard printer. For example, I would like to print out the >>> summary.lm() output, the output of different ftable-functions etc. I use >>> R >>> on a linux machine. >>> >>> The only ways so far have been to copy-paste the output into an external >>> editor or to use sink() to redirect the output into a text file and then >>> use >>> shell commands to print out the file. Both ways work but are a bit >>> laborious >>> :) >>> >>> Many thanks in advance for Your help! >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Kimmo >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
