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I'm curious to know if there is a way to save everything from the R console to a text file when an R script is submitted and executed "remotely" from Microsoft R client to Microsoft R server using the command remoteScript() or remoteExecute().

For example, consider a simple R script 'test.R' as follows:

set.seed(123)
x <- rnorm(100)
mean(x)

I know, to save all from the console, it can be executed in a Local R session as follows:

Local R session:

# Create a text file to save all from console 
logfile <- file("C:/.../MyLog1.txt")
sink(logfile, append = TRUE)
sink(logfile, append = TRUE, type = "message")

# Execute in the local R session
source("C:/.../test.R", echo = TRUE, max.deparse.length = 1000000)

sink()
sink(type = "message")

The log file 'MyLog1.txt', as expected, has everything from the console:

> set.seed(123)
> x <- rnorm(100)
> mean(x)
[1] 0.09040591

Similarly, the same script can be executed with remoteScript() after connecting to the R server.

Remote R session:

# Connect to the server and create a remote session
remoteLogin(...)

# Go back to the local R session
pause()

# Create a text file to save all from console 
logfile <- file("C:/.../MyLog2.txt")
sink(logfile, append = TRUE)
sink(logfile, append = TRUE, type = "message")

# Execute in the remote R session
remoteScript("C:/.../test.R")

sink()
sink(type = "message")

But the log file 'MyLog2.txt' looks different, as shown below:

[1] 0.09040591
$success
[1] TRUE

$errorMessage
[1] ""

$outputParameters
list()

$consoleOutput
[1] "[1] 0.09040591rn"

$changedFiles
list()

$backgroundUpdate
[1] 0

It has only the "Output" and some additional information. Each line of the code with '>' command prompt was not printed like 'MyLog1.txt'. It may be because there is no option like echo=TRUE for remoteScript().

Can anybody help me out with any alternative?

Thanks..