try: print(counter) flush.console() # force the output
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Michael Haenlein <haenl...@escpeurope.eu> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm using a while loop in the context of an iterative optimization > procedure. Within my while loop I have a counter variable that helps me to > determine how long the loop has been running. Before the loop I initialize > it as counter <- 0 and the last condition within my loop is counter <- > counter + 1. > > I'd like to print out the current status of "counter" while the loop is > running to know where the optimization routine is standing. I tried to do so > by adding print(counter) within the while loop. This does however not seem > to work as instead of printing regular updates all print commands are > executed only after the loop is finished. > > Is there some easy way to print regular status updates while the while loop > is still running? > > Thanks, > > Michael > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.