[R] sink() doesn't work

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 22:01:25 CET 2012


sink.number() will give you an idea of how many 'sinks' you might have nested.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Dan Baron <danbenbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oftentimes I want to make outputs to be displayed on the R console.
> However, after I execute a program with a sink command in it the R console
> becomes unresponsive. Meaning that the following occurs in R console:
>
>> source("Program_containing_sink.R")
>> a<-1
>> a
>>
>>sink()
>>a
>>
>
> R help says that sink() will bring output back to the console but i's not
> happening.  Restarting R fixes the problem. This has been driving me nuts
> and I'm sure there's an easy answer but after a week I'm still not sure.  R
> 2.15.1 GUI 1.52  is what's being used.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
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