R help - Oct 2008 - Add notes to sink output

Hello,
How can I add notes (i.e. text) to a sink output?

sink("test.txt")
#This text will describe the test
summary(x)
sink()

How can I add that text above to the sink output?

Thanks,
Michael

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On 14/10/2008, at 9:02 AM, Michael Just wrote:
> Hello,
> How can I add notes (i.e. text) to a sink output?
>
> sink("test.txt")
> #This text will describe the test
> summary(x)
> sink()
>
> How can I add that text above to the sink output?
?cat

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On 13-Oct-08 20:02:20, Michael Just wrote:
> Hello,
> How can I add notes (i.e. text) to a sink output?
> 
> sink("test.txt")
>#This text will describe the test
> summary(x)
> sink()
> 
> How can I add that text above to the sink output?
> Thanks,
> Michael
Anything on the lines of:

  sink("test.txt")
  cat("This text will describe the test\n")
  cat("--------------------------------\n")
  summary(x)
  sink()



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Dear Michael,
You can use cat() as follows:

sink("test.txt")
cat('Here goes your text','\n','\n')  # "\n"
writes white spaces
summary(x)
sink()

See ?cat for more information.

HTH,

Jorge


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Michael Just <mgjust@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> How can I add notes (i.e. text) to a sink output?
>
> sink("test.txt")
> #This text will describe the test
> summary(x)
> sink()
>
> How can I add that text above to the sink output?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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>
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An alternative is to use txtStart (and other functions mentioned in the same
help page) from the TeachingDemos package. This does the sinking, but can also
include the commands as well as allow you to insert comments.  The etxt variants
allow you to postprocess the whole transcript into a postscript (then pdf) file
including selected graphics.

--
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

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> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:02 PM
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> Subject: [R] Add notes to sink output
>
> Hello,
> How can I add notes (i.e. text) to a sink output?
>
> sink("test.txt")
> #This text will describe the test
> summary(x)
> sink()
>
> How can I add that text above to the sink output?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.