I am a professor in a small college and I work with a blind student in a statistical course. We found that R is by far the most accessible system to use, and to read from the screen (that is, to read this result) we need to run R from the command line (the student uses a Windows machine, in particular, running Windows 7). Although using the R console is likely to be easier to use, for some reason the student screen reader (JAWS) does not read the console output.
We have come to the point that we can use R from the command line just fine, but the problem is that we cannot save the history of commands and output from the command line to an external file (for example, .txt), I understand that I can use the sink () function to get the output in a TXT file, and I can also use the savehistory () function to get the command history, but I need something that captures both. We also tried to use CMD outside of R to try to print a full command line session, but this does not seem to reflect the work we could do during the R session.
On a Mac, this is not a problem, but I'm not the best using the Windows command line.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if more information is required, I am more than happy to provide it.