I'm glad this has helped both of you, but as a note, David deserves the credit here---I just put the code together and tested it on Windows.
Josh On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:59 AM, <j.delashe...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Thank you for this! > > I had also wanted in the past to do this, and ended up writing dummy files > with informative names to a folder I set to collect these messages, so I'd > check the folder to see the new files being generated... It did the job, and > at the same time I could see how long it took for my program to reach > certain points (filer creation time) but not the most elegant! I didn't know > about flush.console() > > However I used that approach to generate some diagnostic files, so that if a > complex process broke (sometimes it involved several system calls to > external programs) I had good information about what the program was doing > and at what stage it failed. I created a vector to store teh names of all > teh files being generated and they could be removed automatically > afterwards. > > Not what the OP wanted, but this strategy may be useful for certain tasks. > > Jose > > > Quoting Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com>: > >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Winsemius >> <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Antonio Olinto wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Adrienne, but I still in doubt. The behavior of print and message >>>> looks the same. >>>> >>>> Nothing is displayed on the screen after minutes of routine processing . >>>> All values of "i" are displayed only when I press the stop button (I'm >>>> under >>>> Windows) or when "i" reaches the maximum value. >>>> >>> >>> In the past people have needed to use flush.console() to get output to >>> the >>> screen. Unable to test since A) I'm not running your OS, and B) no >>> reproducible example offered. >> >> I am running your OS (though it would also be nice if you reported the >> results of sessionInfo() ). In any case, this worked for me on R >> 2.12.0 (i386-pc-mingw32): >> >> for(i in 1:6) {Sys.sleep(3); print(i); flush.console()} >> >> For your problem, I imagine something like (though untested because no >> data): >> >> for (i in 1:23194) { >> >> dat.stat[i,c(2:8)]<-quantile(dat.bat[BL==block[i],2],prob=c(0,0.025,0.25,0.5,0.75,0.975,1)) >> print(i) >> flush.console() >> } >> >>> >>>> Thanks again, >>>> >>>> Antônio Olitno >>>> >>>> >>>> Citando Adrienne Wootten <amwoo...@ncsu.edu>: >>>> >>>>> instead of print use this >>>>> >>>>> message(i) >>>>> >>>>> the message command is used for things like this and it will print the >>>>> value >>>>> of i as you are looping through, but you can also do this: >>>>> >>>>> message("Counter value is: ",i) >>>>> >>>>> which returns for i = 20 for example >>>>> >>>>> "Counter value is 20" >>>>> >>>>> for more check out the message help section in the html >>>>> >>>>> ? message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Adrienne Wootten >>>>> NCSU >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Antonio Olinto >>>>> <aolint...@bignet.com.br>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> About looping, consider the example: >>>>>> >>>>>> for (i in 1:23194) { >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> dat.stat[i,c(2:8)]<-quantile(dat.bat[BL==block[i],2],prob=c(0,0.025,0.25,0.5,0.75,0.975,1)) >>>>>> print(i) >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd like to have the value of "i" printed for each loop (step). As I >>>>>> could >>>>>> see the values of "i" are shown on screen only after all the work is >>>>>> done. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestion. >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Antonio >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> David Winsemius, MD >>> West Hartford, CT >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Joshua Wiley >> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology >> University of California, Los Angeles >> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Dr. Jose I. de las Heras Email: j.delashe...@ed.ac.uk > The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology Phone: +44 (0)131 6507095 > Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology Fax: +44 (0)131 6507360 > Swann Building, Mayfield Road > University of Edinburgh > Edinburgh EH9 3JR > UK > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ______________________________________________ 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.