On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Fabio Berzaghi <f...@dmu.dk> wrote: > so in other words there is no easy way of doing this?
That's not what I said. It's easy to make a progress bar if you use plyr:e.g., ddply(baseball, .(id), mutate, career_year = year - min(year) + 1, .progress = "time") Our cautions were against taking it all too seriously. MW > I don't want to spend too much time figure out how this progress bar works. > > I am not clear if the code should run in the main R or where. > > On 4/30/2013 13:11, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Fabio Berzaghi <f...@dmu.dk> 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. >> >> I believe recent-ish versions of the plyr package include this >> feature. Note, however, Prof Ripley's caution: it's not as trivial as >> it might seem to do so _accurately_. With a bit of squinting, one >> might even see the halting problem... >> >> Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/612/ >> >> MW > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
