There could still be functions that divert a copy of all the output to a file, for example. And indeed there are.
sink("transcript.txt", split=TRUE) -thomas On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: > I looked long and hard for that information. Thank you VERY much! -Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:52 PM >> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob); r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] Saving results from Linux command line >> >> There can't be functions in the R language to save the transcript >> of a session. In this respect R is a filter. It takes an input >> stream of text and returns an output stream of text. R doesn't >> remember >> the streams. The Windows RGui remembers them. The ESS *R* buffer >> remembers >> them. Any terminal emulator could in principle remember them. >> R itself can't. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > 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. > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list 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.