Re: [R] session logging

2009-08-04 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Thanks. This seems to mirror the output *both* to the console *and* to the sink file. The error messages, on the other hand, show up only in the console. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Allan Engelhardt wrote: > sink(..., type=c("output","message"), split=TRUE) at the beginning of your > session

Re: [R] session logging

2009-08-04 Thread Allan Engelhardt
sink(..., type=c("output","message"), split=TRUE) at the beginning of your session should do it? Jacob Wegelin wrote: Consider all the text that one sees on the console during an R session. Is there a way, within R, to make all this text--both the "output" and the "messages"--automatically g

Re: [R] session logging

2009-08-03 Thread Marc Schwartz
Jacob, As far as I am aware, the OSX GUI has no logging/transcript feature per se, short of saving the console output to an external file. The history file will, as you note, only contain the commands entered at the R prompt, not the additional output. One of the solutions would be to use

Re: [R] session logging

2009-08-03 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Maybe I'm missing something in the history help file. I read it and subsequently tried > savehistory("trythis.txt") but the resulting file does not contain the text that scrolled past the console. It contains only a few uninteresting timestamps. Is there some more useful application of history()

[R] session logging

2009-08-03 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Consider all the text that one sees on the console during an R session. Is there a way, within R, that all this text--i.e., both the "output" and the "messages"--can be automatically copied to a single file, in addition to its being visible on the console? If I remember to save the console to a f

[R] session logging

2009-08-03 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Consider all the text that one sees on the console during an R session. Is there a way, within R, to make all this text--both the "output" and the "messages"--automatically get copied to a single text file, in addition to seeing it on the console? If I remember to save the console to a file a