Yes, that indeed sounds like a problem, but example(txtProgressBar), which is based on \r, works well in the RStudio console. Anyway, thanks for all the experiments, and (to Renaud) support.rstudio.org is the place to report such problems.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:57 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So in a sense, it is the prompt that is tweaked to “jump to beginning of next > line, unless already at beginning of line”. I don’t recall any “real” > terminal having an escape sequence for that, but I wouldn’t put it past ESS > to do something similar. > > I see your point about cat(“pi”, pi), but I would expect that the bad habit > would get cured first time it was attempted to print something between it and > the next prompt. I’m actually more worried/puzzled that “\r” behaves > strangely (in Rstudio, not R.app): > >> cat("123");cat("\r456") > 456 >> cat("123\r");cat("456") > 123456 > > People do sometimes use this pattern for displaying progress (e.g. iteration > counts). > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
