[R] show messages during a long process

[apjaworski@mmm.com]

In Rgui you can use flush.console().

Andy

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  |      To:       Juan Ramon Gonzalez <jrgonzalez at ico.scs.es>                                                                  |
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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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