R help - May 2003 - Sink for a subdirectory

Hi, how do I sink output to a subdirectory under which R is running?

For example, suppose R is running in ~me and I would like to sink output to
~me/Subdir/filename.

The obvious sink( "Subdir/filename" ) does not seem to work.

Thanks very much.

On Wed, 7 May 2003, R A F wrote:
> Hi, how do I sink output to a subdirectory under which R is running?
> 
> For example, suppose R is running in ~me and I would like to sink output to
> ~me/Subdir/filename.
> 
> The obvious sink( "Subdir/filename" ) does not seem to work.
It works for me, provided Subdir exists. What does `does not seem to work' 
mean, precisely?

There's nothing special about sink(): it can take any valid filename or
any writeable connection.

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On Wed, 07 May 2003 21:38:14 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi, how do I sink output to a subdirectory under which R is running?
>
>For example, suppose R is running in ~me and I would like to sink output to
>~me/Subdir/filename.
>
>The obvious sink( "Subdir/filename" ) does not seem to work.
It works for me.  It would be helpful if you said what goes wrong, and
what OS you're running in.

I'm guessing that Subdir doesn't exist; R won't create it.  I
don't
think there's a mkdir() function in R; you'll need to create the
subdir outside of R, or use system() to do it.  For example, in
Windows,

system('command /c mkdir Subdir')

would do it.

Duncan Murdoch

Sorry, my fault.  I was actually in Subdir while attempting this.  Thanks 
very much.
>From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>To: R A F <raf1729 at hotmail.com>
>CC: r-help at r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [R] Sink for a subdirectory
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:47:26 +0100 (BST)
>
>On Wed, 7 May 2003, R A F wrote:
>
> > Hi, how do I sink output to a subdirectory under which R is running?
> >
> > For example, suppose R is running in ~me and I would like to sink
output
>to
> > ~me/Subdir/filename.
> >
> > The obvious sink( "Subdir/filename" ) does not seem to work.
>
>It works for me, provided Subdir exists. What does `does not seem to
work'
>mean, precisely?
>
>There's nothing special about sink(): it can take any valid filename or
>any writeable connection.