R help - Dec 2008 - Sink does not send graphs to sink file

Wiindows XP
R 2.7
I am using sink() to send the results of my analyses to a text file.
Unfortunately my graphs do not become part of the file. Is there anyway that I
can have both the text and graphic output of my analyses appear in a file?
Thanks,
John

John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
(Phone) 410-605-7119
(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)

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> I am using sink() to send the results of my analyses to a text file.
> Unfortunately my graphs do not become part of the file. Is there 
> anyway that I can have both the text and graphic output of my 
> analyses appear in a file?
You can create a latex document with text, graphs and R-code using 
?Sweave.  If you prefer to write to Open document format , there is an 
Odfweave package.

The other alternative is simply writing your graphs to files (or one file 
with all the graphs), e.g.
pdf("test.pdf")
plot(1:10)
hist(rnorm(100))
dev.off()

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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> I am using sink() to send the results of my analyses to a text
> file. Unfortunately my graphs do not become part of the file.
> Is there anyway that I can have both the text and graphic
> output of my analyses appear in a file?
Well, how would you expect the graphs to be represented in a text
file? So the short answer is no you can't do that.

The longer and probably more helpful answer is: Have a look at
Sweave(). Sweave is a system which allows you to integrate R-code
with LaTeX formatting -- including the possibility to insert
graphs.

cu
	Philipp

-- 
Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl f?r Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universit?t M?nchen
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
85350 Freising, Germany
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel

Others mentioned Sweave, which is the best way to go if you have a planned set
of routines to do.  If you are more just playing and want a transcript of what
you are doing (unpreplanned) that includes graphics in the final version, then
look at etxtStart from the TeachingDemos package.  You will need to postproccess
the file using enscript (and optionally ps2pdf), but then you will end up with a
file including both the text and the graphics.

Note: using the current version (new one due soon) with R2.8 generates some
warnings that can be ignored.

Hope this helps,

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

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> Wiindows XP
> R 2.7
> I am using sink() to send the results of my analyses to a text file.
> Unfortunately my graphs do not become part of the file. Is there anyway
> that I can have both the text and graphic output of my analyses appear
> in a file?
> Thanks,
> John
>
> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
> Baltimore VA Medical Center
> 10 North Greene Street
> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
> (Phone) 410-605-7119
> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>
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John Sorkin wrote:
> Wiindows XP
> R 2.7
> I am using sink() to send the results of my analyses to a text file.
Unfortunately my graphs do not become part of the file. Is there anyway that I
can have both the text and graphic output of my analyses appear in a file?
>   
Hi John,
Both htmlize in the prettyR package and the functions in the R2HTML 
package will format the output of an R session in HTML. The results can 
be displayed in any (graphical) HTML browser.

Jim