Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Ivan Krylov wrote: Just remove the slash from your print command (line 25 of rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r) because it's a syntax error (must be a typo). I.e. the above should be print(summary(estacada_wnw_wx)), not print(/summary(estacada_wnw_wx)) (do you notice the difference?). The rest of your sequence of commands is fine. Ivan, Yes, it was and I did not see it each time I looked at the code, ignoring the error message point me to it. I've now installed lintr and will use that on all my scripts before I run them. Regards, Rich __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
В Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard пишет:
> sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
> print(/summary(estacada_wnw_wx))
> sink()
Just remove the slash from your print command (line 25 of
rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r) because it's a syntax error (must be a typo).
I.e. the above should be print(summary(estacada_wnw_wx)), not
print(/summary(estacada_wnw_wx)) (do you notice the difference?). The
rest of your sequence of commands is fine.
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory [RESOLVED]
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
sink('stat-summary/example-output.txt')
print(summary(df))
sink()
My apologies to everyone for not seeing a typo further in the script.
I had the path to the appropriate directory in the sink() function and the
print() function had only the command as above. Except for one dataframe. In
that one I had stuck a '/' in front of the summary() function and that
caused the problem.
I just found an R equivalent to lint to find such syntactical errors before I
embarrass myself again. Has anyone used lintr from github? I will definitely
start using this on my scripts.
Mea culpa,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
As has been pointed out, the correct way to direct printing to a given location
is using sink( . . . put path here . . . ) then print() and then sink() without
any argument to turn off print direction. A helpful addition to this strategy
is to use the file.path function to define a variable that specifies the path,
i.e.
path <- file.path( . . . specify path here, see documentation of file.path . .
.)
sink(path)
print(. . . an R object . . .)
sink()
The nice feature about using file.path is that it by default it formats the
path correctly for the OS on which you are running R; paths are specified
differently (i.e. use of slashes vs. back slashes) when using Linux vs. windows
systems. Note that when specifying the path using file.path rather than having
to format the path according to the dictates of your OS, all you need to do is
to specify the elements of the path
path <- file.path("data",''FIPSstudy","exercisetests"). The result will be a
character string that is formatted properly for your OS.
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:
> I find your "explanation" confusing. You appear to be misusing print().
> Please read ?print carefully. You print objects in R, not files. Objects
> in R do not have "/" in their names (without some trickery). See
> ?make.names .
Bert,
I had read both ?print and ?print.default looking for information about
placing the printed object in another directory, and found nothing.
My initial assumption was that print() worked similar to plot(). I use
plot() after specifying a pdf file as output and thought that sink() (which
?sink tells me diverts R output to a connection (and stops it as dev.off
stops writing to the pdf file). That sink() apparently does not work the
same way is why I posted my question.
Regards,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Bert Gunter wrote: I find your "explanation" confusing. You appear to be misusing print(). Please read ?print carefully. You print objects in R, not files. Objects in R do not have "/" in their names (without some trickery). See ?make.names . Bert, I had read both ?print and ?print.default looking for information about placing the printed object in another directory, and found nothing. My initial assumption was that print() worked similar to plot(). I use plot() after specifying a pdf file as output and thought that sink() (which ?sink tells me diverts R output to a connection (and stops it as dev.off stops writing to the pdf file). That sink() apparently does not work the same way is why I posted my question. Regards, Rich __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
Apologies if my advice wasn't clear: the file you want to write to goes in
the sink() function/command. You can put the file anywhere on your file
system, no need to write into current directory and then move the file.
The print command is completely unaware of the file you point to in sink().
Technically, print() sends output to a device called "standard output"
which is usually screen, but it can be changed to a file (_any_ writable
file) using the sink() command.
Hope this helps,
Peter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:35 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>
> > Remove the / from the print command, it does not belong there.
>
> Peter,
>
>So the print() function cannot accept a relative path to a different
> directory for its output? This does seem to be the case:
>
> source('rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r')
> Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
>rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
> 24: sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
> 25: print(/
>^
>
>Then I'll print to the cwd and move the files manually afterwards.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:12 PM Rich Shepard 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')
> >>
> >> 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.
>
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
It is not possible for the current working directory to begin with "../". That
is like saying n=n-1, because once follow the two dots up to the next directory
the two dots refer to the next directory up.
I don't think anyone in this list understands what is going on for you, so I
recommend using the reprex package to create a confirmed-reproducible example
and send that along so we can identify the bug or user error that is puzzling
you.
On September 13, 2018 3:42:26 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson
wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:33 PM Rich Shepard
>wrote:
>>
>>Neither ?sink nor ?capture.output indicates how the output file
>can be
>> specified to be in a directory other than the cwd.
>>
>>When the cwd is ../analyses/ and I want the output to be in
>> ../analyses/stat-summaries/ how do I write this?
>>
>>sink('example-output.txt')
>>print(summary(df))
>>sink()
>>
>> writes output to the current directory. My attempts to prefix the
>file name
>> with ./ or just / don't sit well with R.
>
>Hi welcome to R-help. Please help the helper(s) to help you by being
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>code), provide error messages (cut'n'paste) you get, if any, and/or
>what you mean by "don't sit well with R" (that can mean many different
>things).
>
>/Henrik
>
>> What is the proper syntax?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Rich
>>
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On 09/14/2018 02:12 PM, Rich Shepard 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')
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'.
Running R-3.5.1 on Slackware-14.2.
This would appear to have nothing to do with sink(). There is something
weird about your data set estacada_se_wx or the summary thereof that
print() doesn't like.
If I do:
system("mkdir stat-summaries")
estacada_se_wx <- rnorm(10)
sink('stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt')
print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
sink()
system("cat stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt")
I get:
Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.
-1.7292 -0.7621 0.5428 0.2808 1.2603 1.7702
OMMM!!!
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
I find your "explanation" confusing. You appear to be misusing
print(). Please read ?print carefully. You print objects in R, not
files. Objects in R do not have "/" in their names (without some
trickery). See ?make.names .
-- Bert
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:12 PM Rich Shepard 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')
> >>
> >> 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'.
>
>Running R-3.5.1 on Slackware-14.2.
>
> Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
There is no path in print. The path (file) is set in sink().
Peter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:35 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>
> > Remove the / from the print command, it does not belong there.
>
> Peter,
>
>So the print() function cannot accept a relative path to a different
> directory for its output? This does seem to be the case:
>
> source('rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r')
> Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
>rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
> 24: sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
> 25: print(/
>^
>
>Then I'll print to the cwd and move the files manually afterwards.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
For the second time: Rich, there should be no slash in the print() command.
Use the form
sink("../directory/file")
print(summary(foo)) ### no slashes here
sink(NULL)
Peter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:12 PM Rich Shepard
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')
> >>
> >> 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'.
>
>Running R-3.5.1 on Slackware-14.2.
>
> Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
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')
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'.
Running R-3.5.1 on Slackware-14.2.
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:05 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, MacQueen, Don wrote:
>
> > In my experience, any path that can be used at the shell prompt in a
> > unix-alike can be used anywhere that R wants a file name.
>
> Don,
>
>That's been my experiences, too.
>
> > Hopefully, that helps...
>
>That's why I don't understand why the plot() function accepts the
> different directory while the sink() function (here) doesn't.
>
>I showed R rejecting:
>
> sink('stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt')
> print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
> sink()
>
> while accepting:
>
> pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
>
> 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
> while I regularly use this syntax to copy files or
> specify the relative path to an executable file.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, MacQueen, Don wrote:
In my experience, any path that can be used at the shell prompt in a
unix-alike can be used anywhere that R wants a file name.
Don,
That's been my experiences, too.
Hopefully, that helps...
That's why I don't understand why the plot() function accepts the
different directory while the sink() function (here) doesn't.
I showed R rejecting:
sink('stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt')
print(summary(estacada_se_wx))
sink()
while accepting:
pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
plot(rain_est_se)
dev.off()
Changing the sink() file to
'./stat-summaries/estacada-se-precip.txt'
generates the same error while I regularly use this syntax to copy files or
specify the relative path to an executable file.
Regards,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
In my experience, any path that can be used at the shell prompt in a unix-alike
can be used anywhere that R wants a file name.
[that is, when running R on a unix-alike system, and when pwd at the shell
prompt returns the same value as getwd() in R]
Hopefully, that helps...
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On 9/13/18, 3:49 PM, "R-help on behalf of Rich Shepard"
wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> What did you try? Prefixing with either ./ or / doesn't make any sense.
Duncan,
Using linux (and perhaps other unices) ./ and / refer to the current
directory. My code, to print to the sub-directory
(../analyses/stat-summaries/) when the script is being run in ../analyses:
sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
print(/summary(estacada_wnw_wx))
sink()
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Rolf Turner wrote:
This is simply incorrect; "./" refers to the current directory but "/" refers
to the root directory.
Rolf,
I was not sufficientl clear.
Note that sink("./mung.txt") gives the same result as sink("mung.txt"). I.e.
the "./" is redundant.
If you have a directory "gorp" in your current directory, then
sink("gorp/mung.txt")
will put the sink() output into the file "mung.txt" in the directory "gorp".
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.
Regards,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Peter Langfelder wrote:
Remove the / from the print command, it does not belong there.
Peter,
So the print() function cannot accept a relative path to a different
directory for its output? This does seem to be the case:
source('rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r')
Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
24: sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
25: print(/
^
Then I'll print to the cwd and move the files manually afterwards.
Thanks,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On 09/14/2018 10:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
What did you try? Prefixing with either ./ or / doesn't make any sense.
Duncan,
Using linux (and perhaps other unices) ./ and / refer to the current
directory.
This is simply incorrect; "./" refers to the current directory but "/"
refers to the root directory.
Note that sink("./mung.txt") gives the same result as sink("mung.txt").
I.e. the "./" is redundant.
If you have a directory "gorp" in your current directory, then
sink("gorp/mung.txt")
will put the sink() output into the file "mung.txt" in the directory "gorp".
cheers,
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
Remove the / from the print command, it does not belong there.
sink("../directory/file.txt");
print(summary(foo))
sink(NULL)
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:03 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > sink('example-output.txt')
> > print(summary(df))
> > sink()
>
>Let me expand on this. When the script contains
>
> # Open PDF device to save plot
> pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
> ...
> plot(rain_est_se)
> dev.off()
>
> the file, rainfall-estacada-se.pdf is placed in the images directory, which
> is on the same directory level as the one in which the script is being run.
> I thought the equivalent syntax with sink() would work, but the print
> command rejects the forward slash that plot() accepts:
>
> Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
>rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
>
>Is this more clear?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
sink('example-output.txt')
print(summary(df))
sink()
Let me expand on this. When the script contains
# Open PDF device to save plot
pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
...
plot(rain_est_se)
dev.off()
the file, rainfall-estacada-se.pdf is placed in the images directory, which
is on the same directory level as the one in which the script is being run.
I thought the equivalent syntax with sink() would work, but the print
command rejects the forward slash that plot() accepts:
Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
Is this more clear?
Thanks,
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
What did you try? Prefixing with either ./ or / doesn't make any sense.
Duncan,
Using linux (and perhaps other unices) ./ and / refer to the current
directory. My code, to print to the sub-directory
(../analyses/stat-summaries/) when the script is being run in ../analyses:
sink('stat-summaries/estacada-wnw-precip.txt')
print(/summary(estacada_wnw_wx))
sink()
Rich
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Re: [R] sink() output to another directory
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:33 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>Neither ?sink nor ?capture.output indicates how the output file can be
> specified to be in a directory other than the cwd.
>
>When the cwd is ../analyses/ and I want the output to be in
> ../analyses/stat-summaries/ how do I write this?
>
>sink('example-output.txt')
>print(summary(df))
>sink()
>
> writes output to the current directory. My attempts to prefix the file name
> with ./ or just / don't sit well with R.
Hi welcome to R-help. Please help the helper(s) to help you by being
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code), provide error messages (cut'n'paste) you get, if any, and/or
what you mean by "don't sit well with R" (that can mean many different
things).
/Henrik
> What is the proper syntax?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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