On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote:

> 
> I think cat() will print immediately from inside a loop.

So will print(), but Gilda is probably on Windows and hasn't read the
rw-FAQ Q6.3.

FAQs are useful things!

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Gilda Garibotti wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know if it is possible to get printed output while a loop is 
> > taking place.
> > Example:
> > for(i in 1:10){
> >  print(i)
> >  some long process
> > }
> >
> > This will print the values of i only after the loop is finished, what I would like 
> > is to
> > see them when the process enters the i-th iteration to keep track of how the
> > program is running.


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