Add a flush.console() statement after each cat.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Philip A. Viton <vito...@osu.edu> wrote: > > On: R 2.8.1 / Ms Windows / R-Gui-R-console > > I have a long-ish function, and to re-assure myself that it's actually > making progress I've arranged a set of messages to the console (using cat). > But what happens is that the messages don't actually display until the > function has finished, which sort of negates the purpose. However, if I hit > Return after starting the function, then all is well. I'm pretty sure that > what's happening is that the function isn't yielding time to the operating > system in order that messages be processed: so my question is, is there any > way to do that within the function? Or maybe, to simulate the Return > keystroke? > > Thanks! > > ------------------------ > Philip A. Viton > City Planning, Ohio State University > 275 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210 > vito...@osu.edu > > ______________________________________________ > 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.