[R] printing to stderr

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:

> is it possible to configure the print function to print to stderr?

No, but where standard output goes is controlled by sink(), so you can 
achieve the same effect.  R internally has no idea what output comes from 
print() (which is not just one function but hundreds of methods).

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