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How do you print to stderr in R?

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How do you print to stderr in R?

This would especially useful for scripts written in Rscript.

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Frank Avatar asked Jul 10 '09 11:07

Frank


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Actually the following works for me:

write("prints to stderr", stderr())  write("prints to stdout", stdout()) 
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Frank Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 04:10

Frank