How to "find" in console output?

[Michael]

Stupid question perhaps, but I need to do ctrl-F style finding in my console output. I'm on Windows. Don't see a way to do it in RStudio or the R GUI. Can do it in my console emulator, but as I'm set up now, that's inconvenient because I have to paste back and forth from the script. So two possible solutions: is there some kind of ctrl-F functionality for output in RStudio or the R GUI, or is there a convenient way to send lines from a script file to my console emulator (cmder), like ctrl-Enter in RStudio?

[Noam Ross]

This may not quite cover your needs, but sink("output.txt", split=TRUE) will send your console output to output.txt as well as the console window. From there you can search the file however you please. sink("output.txt", type="message") will record messages (Errors and warnings, mostly), but for some reason doesn’t allow split=TRUE, so you don’t see them in your console. sink(NULL) when you’re done stops recording the output.

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:28 PM Michael <mle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Stupid question perhaps, but I need to do ctrl-F style finding in my console output. I'm on Windows. Don't see a way to do it in RStudio or the R GUI. Can do it in my console emulator, but as I'm set up now, that's inconvenient because I have to paste back and forth from the script. So two possible solutions: is there some kind of ctrl-F functionality for output in RStudio or the R GUI, or is there a convenient way to send lines from a script file to my console emulator (cmder), like ctrl-Enter in RStudio?

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[Michael Levy]

Thanks. That is definitely an improvement.

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[Jaime Ashander]

Using R in a bash-similar shell (e.g. on standard shell on mac os x or unix, or cygwin on windows), CTRL-r will do a 'reverse-i-search'. Start typing the search and the first match will show up, hit CTRL-r for subsequent matches

[Jaime Ashander]

Sorry. Now that I actually read your full question, I see you've got that going.

Both emacs (ESS) and vim (using some tmux thing -- see Vince's page here https://github.com/vsbuffalo/devnotes/wiki/Vim,-R,-and-Tmux:-Minimal-Configuration ) can send lines from a script file to terminal.

sinking and searching is probably the way to go