On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> >>>>> Gabor Grothendieck writes:
>
> >
> > print.packageInfo does not print to the console, it uses file.show.
> > For example, on R 1.9.1 patched on Windows XP:
> >
> >> require(chron)
> > [1] TRUE
> >> capture.output(print.packageInfo(help(package = chron)), file = "/abc.txt")
> > NULL
> >> length(readLines("/abc.txt"))
> > [1] 0
>
> But file.show() can be tuned by playing with options(pager).
>
> In your case, something like
>
> oop <- options(pager = function(file, ...) writeLines(readLines(file)))
> capture.output(print.packageInfo(help(package = "stats")),
> file = "abc.txt")
> options(oop)
>
> gives
>
> R> length(readLines("abc.txt"))
> [1] 345
or even
oop <- options(pager="console")
an internal version of the same thing under R for Windows.
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