[Rd] print() from within a function - Windows specific? (PR#7584)

[Peter Dalgaard]

markus.liedgens at ipw.agrl.ethz.ch writes:

> To control the progress of a function one can consider to use print() to issue a
> message in the command window. However, using Win98 / R 1.9 or WinXP / R 2.0,
> this approach is of little usefulness, since all the print() commands are issued
> at once, just before the control returns to the command window. A test code
> could be:
> 
> for(i in 1:10){
>  for(j in 1:1000){
>   for(k in 1:1000){}
>  }
>  print(i)
> }
> 
> I once ask a linux / unix user and he was not able to reproduce the problem.

It IS a FAQ though...

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-output-to-the-console-seems-to-be-delayed

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