You have to explicitly 'print' the output. At the command line there is an implicit 'print'. Try:
sink(file="x_seq2_fit.dat") print(summary(x_seq2_fit)) sink() sink(file="x_seq1_fit.dat") print(summary(x_seq1_fit)) sink() On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:47 PM, David Riebel<drie...@pha.jhu.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running R under Ubuntu 8.04. I am trying to do numerous linear > fits to various subsets of my data set. I am having trouble convincing > R to send the output from these fits to text files from within a script. > When I run my script, all the plots are created as postscript files in > the correct directory, and text files appear with the correct names for > all the summaries of the fits. However, all of these files are blank! > If I copy/paste the "sink" commands from my script manually into the > command line, the files are created correctly, but if the same commands > are executed from within my script, no output is generated. > > The output section of my script, which correctly creates the plots I > want, but not the text, is: > > x_seq1_fit=lm(xagb$X5mag[x_seq1_filt]~x1per) > x_seq2_fit=lm(xagb$X5mag[x_seq2_filt]~x2per) > > setwd("/home/driebel/sage/output/pl_fits/R/5mag/chem") > postscript(file="x_seq1_fit.ps") > plot(x1per,xagb$X5mag[x_seq1_filt],ylim=c(13,7)) > abline(x_seq1_fit,col="red") > dev.off() > postscript(file="x_seq1_resid.ps") > plot(x1per,x_seq1_fit$res) > abline(h=0,col="red") > dev.off() > > postscript(file="x_seq2_fit.ps") > plot(x2per,xagb$X5mag[x_seq2_filt],ylim=c(13,7)) > abline(x_seq2_fit,col="red") > dev.off() > postscript(file="x_seq2_resid.ps") > plot(x2per,x_seq2_fit$res) > abline(h=0,col="red") > dev.off() > > sink(file="x_seq2_fit.dat") > summary(x_seq2_fit) > sink() > sink(file="x_seq1_fit.dat") > summary(x_seq1_fit) > sink() > > > Is there something else one must do with "sink" from within a script? > Thanks for your help, > > Dave > > ______________________________________________ > 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.