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On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
> R 3.0.1
> OS X
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I am experimenting with incorporating C code into R. After compiling the C
> code with:
> R CMD SHLIB -o FILE.so FILE.c
> and executing:
> dyn.load("FILE.so")
> (without any errors), I execute the following R functions in a terminal
> window:
> READSAS <- function(sourcefile) .C("readsas", sourcefile)
> OUTPUT <- READSAS("../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat")
> R / C then reads a sas7bdat file and sends the contents to the terminal
> window.
>
> I expected OUTPUT to contain the text that appear in the terminal window
> (i.e., the contents of the file). But, that is not the case; OUTPUT contains:
> [[1]]
> [1] "../SASFILES/sdrug.sas7bdat"
> It is not clear to my how to capture that appears in the terminal window.
>
> Ultimately, I may need to modify the C code so that the output goes to a
> file, which I then read into R. However, it would be better if I did not
> need to modify the C code.
> Does anyone have any ideas of how I can capture this output within R?
>
> Dennis
>
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