[R] task percentage completion

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 30/04/2013 10:40, Fabio Berzaghi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Is it possible to add a percentage completion bar to R? I find it
> frustrating when running long calculations that I don't know at what
> point the process is. It would be very helpful so I am not guessing if I
> should wait a few minutes or hours.

Yes.  See ??progressbar

And this does need some knowledge from the programmer: no way can anyone 
know how long a task will take without either

- a pretty complete (and correct) analysis
- trying it.

People inadvertently write loops where step i takes time proportional to 
i, so extrapolation from a pilot study does not suffice.

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