[R] how to print error message in batch mode

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan T. Kim wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:58:55PM +0200, Elio Mineo wrote:
>> This solution is fine, too.
>> The Achim's solution is what I have asked with this slight modification:
>>
>> $ R -q --no-save < prova > prova.out 2>> prova.out
>
> The canonical and perhaps "more correct" way to redirect stderr into
> stdout is 2>&1, as in
>
>    R -q --no-save < prova > prova.out 2>&1

Which as I have already pointed out, is what R CMD BATCH does.

[I hope you replied to Elio as well as to the list: the headers do not 
show it.]

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