On 15/03/2011 8:46 AM, Matt Shotwell wrote:
Here's a temporary fix; reassign 'cat' in the environment of
'txtProgressBar':
tpbEnv<- new.env()
assign("cat", function(...) cat(file=stderr(),...), tpbEnv)
environment(txtProgressBar)<- tpbEnv
I would suggest renaming the function as well. What's done above
creates a new function called txtProgressBar, it doesn't modify the
original one, so depending on scoping issues it may appear to only work
sometimes. But if you did
stderrProgressBar <- txtProgressBar
environment(stderrProgressBar) <- tpbEnv
you'll get clear messages if it is out of scope when you try to use it.
Duncan Murdoch
Best,
Matt
On 03/15/2011 05:37 AM, Andreas Borg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use txtProgressBar to monitor progress of large computations. What I
> miss is the ability to redirect the progress bar to a stream other than
> stdout, specifically to the message stream. This would be useful for
> running Sweave scripts: When redirected to stderr, the bar could be
> visible even though console output is diverted to the output file (and
> there would be no cluttering of the generated latex).
>
> I'd suggest the following changes to txtProgressBar:
> - a new argument 'file' (compare to 'cat') which defaults to stderr()
> (there might be reasons to use stdout(), but I believe a progress bar is
> mostly intended as a diagnostic tool and not for console output, which
> is printed or saved in some cases).
> - the calls to 'cat' that update the progress bar get 'file = file' as
> additional argument so that output is redirected as desired.
>
> In case anyone from the core team is willing to incorparate this idea, I
> attached the patch file for the necessary changes below.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andreas
>
> 3c3
> < width = NA, title, label, style = 1)
> ---
> > width = NA, title, label, style = 1, file=stderr())
> 23c23
> < cat(paste(rep.int(char, nb-.nb), collapse=""))
> ---
> > cat(paste(rep.int(char, nb-.nb), collapse=""), file = file)
> 27c27
> < "\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "")
> ---
> > "\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "", file = file)
> 38c38
> < cat("\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "")
> ---
> > cat("\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "", file = file)
> 42c42
> < "\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "")
> ---
> > "\r", paste(rep.int(char, nb), collapse=""), sep = "", file = file)
> 54c54
> < cat(paste(c("\r |", rep.int(" ", nw*width+6)), collapse=""))
> ---
> > cat(paste(c("\r |", rep.int(" ", nw*width+6)), collapse=""), file =
> file)
> 59c59
> < ), collapse=""))
> ---
> > ), collapse=""), file = file)
> 68c68
> < cat("\n")
> ---
> > cat("\n", file = file)
>
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