[R] sink() output to another directory

[Jeff Newmiller]

It is not possible for the current working directory to begin with "../". That is like saying n=n-1, because once follow the two dots up to the next directory the two dots refer to the next directory up.

I don't think anyone in this list understands what is going on for you, so I recommend using the reprex package to create a confirmed-reproducible example and send that along so we can identify the bug or user error that is puzzling you.

On September 13, 2018 3:42:26 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:33 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>    Neither ?sink nor ?capture.output indicates how the output file
>can be
>> specified to be in a directory other than the cwd.
>>
>>    When the cwd is ../analyses/ and I want the output to be in
>> ../analyses/stat-summaries/ how do I write this?
>>
>>    sink('example-output.txt')
>>    print(summary(df))
>>    sink()
>>
>> writes output to the current directory. My attempts to prefix the
>file name
>> with ./ or just / don't sit well with R.
>
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>things).
>
>/Henrik
>
>> What is the proper syntax?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Rich
>>
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