[R] show messages during a long process

[Laurent Gautier]

This would work under UNIX when running R on the command line.
I think the Rgui terminal is buffered...
the gurus out there might know a trick to flush it on request... 




On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Juan Ramon Gonzalez wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Juan
> 
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