R help - Aug 2007 - Saving results from Linux command line

Hi All,

I'm used to running R on Windows & learning Linux. I know ESS is the way
to go in the long run, but I'm trying now to just understand the command
line. I can interactively enter commands, see the results on the screen
and save input & output to myresults.txt with this approach:

$script myresults.txt
$R
> ...r commands...
>q()
$exit

I can also use the Linux tee command to do essentially the same thing.

Both of those approaches do what I want, but I assume there is a way to
do it within R. I've been through AITR Appendix B and the FAQ looking
for either a startup option or an R function to do this but I don't see
either. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bob



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Go for the best and do it with ESS.

ESS understands the file extension myfile.rt (not myfile.txt, which is generic)
as an R transcript and therefore font-locks it for the R syntax and is able to
resend
multiple-line statements with a single ENTER.

Within emacs, you can save the *R* buffer to a myfile.rt file (you can also
save the R transcript as myfile.rt running inside a *shell* buffer,
but that is silly at this point).

Plus you get syntax highlighting and the other features on your myfile.R file.

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.