withr (version 1.0.1)

with_sink: Output redirection

Description

Temporarily divert output to a file via sink. For sinks of type message, an error is raised if such a sink is already active.

Usage

with_output_sink(new, code, append = FALSE, split = FALSE)

with_message_sink(new, code, append = FALSE)

Arguments

new
[character(1)|connection] A writable connection or a character string naming the file to write to. Passing NULL will throw an error.
code
[any] Code to execute in the temporary environment
append
logical. If TRUE, output will be appended to file; otherwise, it will overwrite the contents of file.
split
logical: if TRUE, output will be sent to the new sink and to the current output stream, like the Unix program tee.

Value

  • [any] The results of the evaluation of the code argument.

See Also

withr for examples

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