[R] show messages during a long process

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Juan Ramon Gonzalez" <jrgonzalez at ico.scs.es> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a function which takes some time to execute (20 sec.) and I want to
> show the progress of the execution with simple messages such as "10% done",
> "20% done", ... (with a simple "cat" function). The problem is that all the
> messages appear together when the execution of the function is over. How can
> I show each message at their corresponding time?

On Windows? Disable "buffered output" via the menus.

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