[R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off

[Prof Brian Ripley]

No, and options() really is part of the R/S language not the interface.

See the rw-FAQ Q6.3 for how to manage the buffering more effectively.
(Hint: you need to put calls to flush.console() in your code.)


On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 Toby.Patterson at csiro.au wrote:

> I meant via a function or something like:
>
> options( buffered.output = FALSE)
>
> Sorry, I should have made that clearer.
>
> Cheers
> Toby
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger D. Peng [mailto:rpeng at jhsph.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: Patterson, Toby (Marine, Hobart)
> Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off
>
> Ctrl-W.
>
> -roger
>
> Toby.Patterson at csiro.au wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is an option I can set to turn
> screen-buffered
> > output on and off with the win32 rgui? (Apart from the point and click
> > method).
> >
> > I am running some simulations where it is useful to watch output but
> it
> > gets mildly tiresome having to manually switch things on and off via
> the
> > gui.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Toby.
> >
> >
> >>version
> >
> >          _
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386
> > os       mingw32
> > system   i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major    1
> > minor    8.1
> > year     2003
> > month    11
> > day      21
> > language R
> >
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