Duncan, Thank you, however, if you will look at my function (bottom of this Email message), you will see that I have used print(). It appears that the print function is not run until the entire function completes running. John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)>>> Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> 12/31/2009 10:19 AM >>> On 31/12/2009 9:29 AM, John Sorkin wrote: > I have written a function that contains runs > lm() > vif() and > glm() > > When the glm() blows up with an error message, I don't get the output from > either the lm() or vf() even thought neither lm() nor vif() have any problems > . How can I force the function to print sequential results rather than wait > for the entire function to complete before listing the functhion's output? Call print, e.g. print(x <- lm(...)) print(y <- vif(...)) etc. Duncan Murdoch > Thanks, > John > > > > minBMI<-function(SS,SimData) > { > SampleData<-sample(1:SS,size=SS,replace=TRUE) > fitBMIEpiRevlm<-lm(AAMTCARE~BMIEpiRevAdjc+BMIEpiRevAdjcSq+SEX+jPHI+jMEDICAID+H_AGE+jMARSTAT+factor(jEDUCATION)+factor(jsmokercat)+factor(jrace)+log(INCOME_C+1),data=SimData[SampleData,],x=TRUE) > print(summary(fitBMIEpiRevlm)) > print(vif(fitBMIEpiRevlm)) > fitBMIEpiRev<- > glm(AAMTCARE~BMIEpiRevAdjc+BMIEpiRevAdjcSq+SEX+jPHI+jMEDICAID+H_AGE+jMARSTAT+factor(jEDUCATION)+factor(jsmokercat)+factor(jrace)+log(INCOME_C+1),data=SimData[SampleData,],family=Gamma(link="log")) > > print(summary(fitBMIEpiRev)) > } > minBMI(SS,SimData) > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:17}} ______________________________________________ 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.