[Rd] File and console output does not work in C code

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Benjamin Leblanc wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am getting into trouble when trying to do standard I/O from a C function 
> called within R environment.
>
> This function is written in a small C library that is loaded whith dyn.load() 
> and called in R via the .C() interface. I need to debug the C code using a 
> text file for some logs, and also to speed up its result visualization by 
> creating images on the fly using the GD library.
> Both of these outputs require to write into files from this C function.
> Allthough everything goes smoothly from compilation and linking to execution 
> into R without errors, no file is created. I have also tried to do some 
> simple printf(), Rprintf() and REprintf() but even that didn't gave me any 
> visible output.
>
> Am I missing something trivial? Could anyone give me a hint on why it does 
> not work?

It works in many other packages.  What OS are you using?  (There known 
issues with using stdout and stderr from GUIs, but those are 
documented in the R-exts manual.)

> Best regards,
>
> Benjamin
>
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