[R] making R print on screen

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:26 AM, ld7631 wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am running a "for" loop. In the loop I am producing some
> intermediary results and asking R to print it (of the type below).
> However, I noticed - when the task is complicated and takes a lot of
> time, R does not print those intermediary results immediately, but
> prints them in batches - or does not print at all until we are done
> with the whole calculation.
> Is there any way to force R to really print everything it's supposed
> to be printing as soon as one iteration is over?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> for(i in ....) {
> x<-...
> print(x)
> }


Presumably you are on Windows?  If so, see:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-output-to-the-console-seems-to-be-delayed


HTH,

Marc Schwartz