How to create periodically send text to a “log file” while printing normal output to console?

Question

I\'m creating R code for a Monte Carlo simulation of a professional sport. Because the game dynamics are very complicated and to make the debugging process simpler, I\'d like to

Answer 1

Figured it out, thanks to shujaa and BigFinger. To summarize, here is how you would do it with my example code:

log_con <- file("/filepath/log.txt", open="a")

for (i in 1:100)
{
cat("loop begins", file = log_con, sep="\n")
a <- rnorm(n = 100, mean = i, sd = 5)
print(mean(a))
cat("single loop completed", file = log_con, sep="\n")
}

close(log_con)