[R] Displaying Iteration Count

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 15:19:01 CEST 2010


You can use cat() to print something during a loop.
The help for for() even gives an example.

Sarah

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Downey, Patrick <PDowney at urban.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running a very long for loop that usually takes hours. For my own piece
> of mind, it would be nice if I could check periodically and see which
> iteration the loop is on. A line of code that told R to print the iteration
> number every 100 or 200 iterations would be perfect.
>
> Does anyone know something like this? I've never known how to print
> anything within a for loop before the loop ends.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
>

Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org



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