Hi,

I just installed R 2.12 and it seems to me the way progress is reported when 
installing packages is different. 

I picked a few packages to install and I selected "install dependencies". R's 
spinning wheel spinned endlessly, with no text appearing in the console to 
indicate progress. I was used to see progress as each package got loaded on 
disk and then installed, but nothing. After a minute, I force-quit R and 
relaunched it. Selecting a single package without the option "install 
dependencies" worked as usual. In this case, it was doBy, and within seconds 
the process was complete.

I then selected doBy again in the package installer, but this time I selected 
"install dependencies". Spinning wheel, no progress in the console. I must have 
waited 2-3 minutes and suddenly the console quickly listed all the work that 
had been accomplished (it seems many packages needed to be installed, as this 
was a brand new R 2.12 install). It seems to me that in the past (including R 
2.11), the console kept us up to date with what was happening. If this is not 
just my imagination, the old behavior was preferable.

Denis
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