You could use any of the gui toolkits (tcltk, gWidgets ...) and create a watch window which displays the changing value of your variable in a popup widged.
On 2/16/2011 10:54 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 02/16/2011 10:38 AM, Alaios wrote: >> Dear all I would like to ask you if there is a way in R to monitor in R when >> a value changes. > >> Right now I use the sprintf('my variables is %d \n, j) to print the value of >> the variable. > >> Is it possible when a 'big' for loop executes to open in a new window to >> dynamically check only the variable I want to. > > I don't think that this functionality is implemented. > > But I guess you can implement it - would it be possible to re-define th > "<-" to check if a certain variable is to be changed, and then print it? > > Might be tricky and would slow everything considerably down. > > Just a thought, > > Rainer > > >> If I put all the sprintf statements inside my loop then I get flooded with >> so many messages that makes it useless. > >> Best Regards >> Alex > >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.