How do you print to stderr in R?

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Frank picture Frank · Jul 10, 2009 · Viewed 31.5k times · Source

How do you print to stderr in R?

This would especially useful for scripts written in Rscript.

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Frank picture Frank · Jul 10, 2009

Actually the following works for me:

write("prints to stderr", stderr())

write("prints to stdout", stdout())

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