On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Gustaf Rydevik wrote: > On 9/4/07, Werner Wernersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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()
That is used by capture.output() to capture R output, but this question is about output that never goes near R. The answer is in ?system, but might depend on the unstated OS. Arguments 'intern' and 'show.output.on.console' are relevant. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.