On 20 Mar 2007, at 07:53, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Wolfi" == Wolfgang Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:38:00 +0000 writes:
>
>>> the problem with results=hide is that it suppresses everything. I
>>> just
>>> need Sweave to suppress strings ending in '\r'...
>
>
> Wolfi> Dear Ernest,
>
> Wolfi> IMHO it is good practice to make the printing of these
> progress reports
> Wolfi> ("sweep 4 of 1024\r") optional and produce them only if
> the user calls
> Wolfi> your function with, say, "verbose=TRUE",
>
> I strongly agree.
>
> Wolfi> and furthermore set the default value of the
> Wolfi> 'verbose' argument to "verbose=interactive()".
>
> or -- typically my choice -- to 'verbose = getOption("verbose")
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
> Wolfi> Best wishes
> Wolfi> Wolfgang
>
> [............]
>
I agree that users should be free to choose the level of verbosity.
Here, I want to show the verbose output and print it onto the tex
file using Sweave to give users a good idea of what happens. What I
don't want is countless lines being printed because \r is being
interpreted as \n ...
Thanks,
Ernest
>>>> Ernest Turro wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> I have a code chunk in my Rnw file that, when executed, outputs
>>>>> carriage return characters ('\r') to inform on the progress (e.g.
>>>>> "sweep 4 of 1024\r"). But Sweave interprets this as a newline
>>>>> character, and therefore I get countless pages of output in my
>>>>> vignette where I only really want one line. Any ideas?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> E
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