In the R gui for windows you can turn off buffering with cntrl-w or
through one of the menus, but for more general solutions you should
look at:
?flush.console
?winProgressBar or ?tcltk::tkProgressBar or ?txtProgressBar
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> Hello, All:
>
>
> Does anyone know how to defeat buffering of output to the console from
> Rgui? I routinely print progress reports to the console from within Rterm
> running under Emacs with ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics); see the example
> below. However, when I run the same example under Rgui, it queues all the
> output until the computations are complete.
>
>
> How can I monitor the progress of computations in both Rgui and Rterm?
>
>
> Consider the following:
>
>
> for(i in 1:1e7){
> tst <- sin(i)
> if((i%%1e5)==0)cat(i, "")
> if((i%%1e6)==0)cat('\n')
> }
>
>
> For Rterm 2.15.1 running under Emacs with ESS (Emacs Speaks
> Statistics), this prints 10000, then pauses before printing 200000, etc.,
> until it gets to 1000000, printing 10 numbers in each row.
>
>
> However, in Rgui 2.15.1, it queues all the numbers and prints them all
> together when it completes the computation. The following is similar:
>
>
> for(i in 1:1e7){
> tst <- sin(i)
> if((i%%1e5)==0)print(i)
> if((i%%1e6)==0)cat('\n')
> }
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
>
> Thanks,
> Spencer
>
>
> On 6/28/2012 9:07 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply Jon.
>>>
>>> I need to actually do more than print the name of the variable (I just
>>
>> made
>>>
>>> the example simpler). I need to manipulate var_1, var_2 etc. but setting
>>> values of NA to 0.
>>
>> Why? R has pretty strong system for handling NAs. The only exception AFAIK
>> is cumsum
>> x<-1:10
>> sum(x)
>> [1] 55
>> x[5]<-NA
>> sum(x)
>> [1] NA
>> sum(x, na.rm=T)
>> [1] 50
>> cumsum(x)
>> [1] 1 3 6 10 NA NA NA NA NA NA
>>
>>> So as you said, "1. if you want to "display" the variable, just type it
>>>>
>>>> var_1
>>>
>>> "
>>>
>>> But how do I do this in a loop where the number portion of var is the
>>> counter in the loop?
>>
>> You probably shall get familiar with list concept which is another strong
>> feature of R. You can easily subset lists either by *apply functions or in
>> for cycle just by indexing.
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kat
>>>
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