How do you print to stderr in R?
This would especially useful for scripts written in Rscript.
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Is it possible to configure the print function to print to stderr?
No, but where standard output goes is controlled by sink(), so you can achieve the same effect. R internally has no idea what output comes from print() (which is not just one function but hundreds of methods).
Galwegian
2009-07-10 11:30:50
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Actually the following works for me:
write("prints to stderr", stderr())
write("prints to stdout", stdout())
This is on Linux, with R 2.8.1 (using Rscript)
2009-07-10 12:22:02
This code also works on Windows. For more formatting control, you can use cat instead of write.
Richie Cotton
2009-07-13 09:01:13