[R] sink() output to another directory

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:12 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
> >> sink('stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt')
> >> print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
> >> sink()
> >>
> >> while accepting:
> >>
> >> pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
> >>   <snip xyplot() function>
> >> plot(rain_est_se)
> >> dev.off()
> >>
> >>    Changing the sink() file to
> >> './stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt'
> >>
> >> generates the same error
> >
> > "same error" as what? (ambiguity is the reason for not being able to
> > help you - all the replies in this thread this far are correct and on
> > the spot)
> >
> > BTW, not that it should matter, what is your operating system and version of R?
>
> Henrik,
>
>    As I wrote in earlier messages:
>
> sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
> print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
> sink()
>
> results in
>
> 24: sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
> 25: print(/
>             ^
>     Does not matter if I use single or double quotes.
>
>    The message that print() doesn't like the forward slash results when I
> specify 'stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt' or
> './stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt'.

Since it is impossible to get that error message (which is a syntax
error, i.e. the R parser does not accept the code as written and it
never gets to the point where the R engine even runs your code) for
the code you are showing, I strongly suspect that you didn't source()
the same file that you were editing (the one that contains the
three-line code you are displaying above).

I see from one of your later message that you've got it to work now.

/Henrik

>
>    Running R-3.5.1 on Slackware-14.2.
>
> Rich
>
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