[R] bug

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

This is not a bug but a documented feature. If I do that in source, even
in Linux I do not get output from the summary call. Why? Because
you did not print it. Inside a function (and source is a 
function) autoprinting is turned off. You need to print
explicitly.  The function of summary() is to compute a summary,
not to print it. That is the job of print.summary.lm (not
the non-existent print.summary as ?summary.lm says).

You have discovered the the reason for the existence of rterm,
to process scripts.

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Geldenhuys, Willie wrote:

> -------------------------------------------------
> SAMPLE SCRIPT:
> x<-rnorm(50)
> y<-12*x+30*rnorm(10)
> ff<-lm(y~x)
> sink("output.txt")
> print(ff) # this work give basic coefficients
> summary(ff) # should give Rsquare etc
> sink()
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Having fitted a curve on a data set, I am trying 
> to write all the statistics about the fit to a 
> file. 
> 
> In Linux, everything works OK, but in Windows NT:
> 
> RGUI
> source("sink.R")
> 
> the summary(ff) does NOT write anything to the 
> file. If you execute the same source via:  
> 
> RTERM < sink.R everything works OK.

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