[R] help: how to save outputs from an analysis?

Thomas Lumley thomas at biostat.washington.edu
Tue Oct 17 17:45:32 CEST 2000


On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 Pan_Yuming at aam.de wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> i just started with R
> I could not find out how to get the output from an analysis saved into a
> file. for example, i could view a summary by keying in summary(***) after i
> run a regression analysis. but how could i save that summary into a text
> file?

If you type

  > sink("outputfile")
all output will be sent to "outputfile" until you type
  > sink("")
to get it back on screen.

A much better way to do this is to run R under Emacs using ESS, where
everything ends up in an Emacs editing buffer.  You can do this on Unix
and on Windows 9x and NT, but not currently on Win2000.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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