[R] Printing status updates in while-loop

[jim holtman]

try:

print(counter)
flush.console()  # force the output

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Michael Haenlein
<haenlein at escpeurope.eu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm using a while loop in the context of an iterative optimization
> procedure. Within my while loop I have a counter variable that helps me to
> determine how long the loop has been running. Before the loop I initialize
> it as counter <- 0 and the last condition within my loop is counter <-
> counter + 1.
>
> I'd like to print out the current status of "counter" while the loop is
> running to know where the optimization routine is standing. I tried to do so
> by adding print(counter) within the while loop. This does however not seem
> to work as instead of printing regular updates all print commands are
> executed only after the loop is finished.
>
> Is there some easy way to print regular status updates while the while loop
> is still running?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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