[R] "displayed" output of cat(..., stderr()) is garbaged

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> To display progress of a loop I wanted to print the current value of the
> loop variable, e.g.
>
> > for (i in 1:2) cat("i=", i, "\n")
> for (i in 1:2) cat(i, "\n")
> i= 1
> i= 2
>
>
> So far so good. Now I want to redirect it to stderr() (to make it
> unbuffered)
>
> > for (i in 1:2) cat("i=", i, "\n", stderr())
> for (i in 1:2) cat("i=", i, "\n", stderr())
> i= 1
>  2i= 2
>  2>
>
> This is contaminated with the value of the stderr file descriptor (2).
>
> Is there any way to get rid of this "garbage"? Is there any other way to
> write to stderr?

Use it as documented:

cat("i=", i, "\n", file=stderr())


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