Method for getting R console contents / buffer?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
api

Research direction

The issue names no source files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating the existing terminal-buffer methods in the rstudioapi package and the RStudio console integration; done means an API can return the console header, input history, output, and error messages.

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Description

From what I can tell, the methods for getting the terminal buffers don't extend to their neighbor in RStudio, the R console itself. Thus if I want to do something like pull out the full text of the console (the R header, the input history, the output, the error messages, all of it) I can't presently do that.

(Well, not without hacking the HTML that powers RStudio apart...)

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