Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Snow
Others mentioned progress bars and sprintf, one other option is to use a named vector and let R to the formatting: > tmp <- c(10, -1234) # or variables to put the values in > names(tmp) <- c('Iteration', ' Log Likelihood') > print(tmp) Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Stati

Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Doran, Harold
- From: b.rowling...@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:50 AM To: Doran, Harold Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Pretty printing progress On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > I ha

Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Doran, Harold
Of Douglas Bates Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:14 PM To: Barry Rowlingson Cc: Doran, Harold; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Pretty printing progress On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: >> I have a

Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > Hi Barry: > > I don't think so. In addition to what I put in the example below, there are > some other diagnostics I want to print to screen as the optimization > proceeds. I don't see in the help page whether that is possible in this > fu

Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: >> I have a function that is an iterative process for estimating some MLEs. I >> want to print some progress to screen as the process iterates. I would like >> to try and line thing

Re: [R] Pretty printing progress

2010-06-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > I have a function that is an iterative process for estimating some MLEs. I > want to print some progress to screen as the process iterates. I would like > to try and line things up nicely in the R window, but am not sure the best > way to