[R] sink() output to another directory

[Peter Langfelder]

Remove the / from the print command, it does not belong there.

sink("../directory/file.txt");
print(summary(foo))
sink(NULL)


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:03 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >  sink('example-output.txt')
> >  print(summary(df))
> >  sink()
>
>    Let me expand on this. When the script contains
>
> # Open PDF device to save plot
> pdf('../images/rainfall-estacada-se.pdf')
> ...
> plot(rain_est_se)
> dev.off()
>
> the file, rainfall-estacada-se.pdf is placed in the images directory, which
> is on the same directory level as the one in which the script is being run.
> I thought the equivalent syntax with sink() would work, but the print
> command rejects the forward slash that plot() accepts:
>
> Error in source("rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r") :
>    rainfall-dubois-crk-all.r:25:7: unexpected '/'
>
>    Is this more clear?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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