[R] immediate print
Christos Hatzis
christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com
Tue Feb 5 17:27:03 CET 2008
Introduce
cat(j)
flush.console()
in your loop.
-Christos
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Waterman,
> DG (David)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] immediate print
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a function containing a loop that takes some time to complete.
> Before I enter the loop I want to print a text string to the
> screen explaining what is being calculated, however, I find
> that the information is not printed until the function exits.
> Is there a way of immediately printing a message from within
> a function as a side effect before it returns?
>
> code example:
>
> myFunc <- function(){
> print.noquote("some message that I want to print before exiting the
> function")
> j <- 0
> for (i in 1:1000000){
> j <- j + 1
> }
> j
> }
>
> Best wishes,
> David
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