[R] capture.out(system())?

Gustaf Rydevik gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 09:32:03 CEST 2007


On 9/4/07, Werner Wernersen <pensterfuzzer at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to capture the console output of program I
> call via system() but that always returns only
> character(0).
>
> For example:
> capture.output(system("pdflatex out.tex") )
>
> will yield:
> character(0)
>
> and the output still written to the R console.
>
> Is there a command for intercepting this output?
>
> Thank you!
>   Werner
>

?sink()


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