[R] Printing the loop number for each iteration

[Jim Holtman]

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On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:34, "Bogaso Christofer" <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I have a lengthy 'for' loop and for each loop I want to track the
> iteration number that is currently going on. For this, I have tried
> following:
> 
> 
> 
>> for (i in 1:10) {
> 
> + DumDat <- rnorm(1000)
> 
> + cat("iteration:", i, " \n")
> 
> + }
> 
> iteration: 1  
> 
> iteration: 2  
> 
> iteration: 3  
> 
> iteration: 4  
> 
> iteration: 5  
> 
> iteration: 6  
> 
> iteration: 7  
> 
> iteration: 8  
> 
> iteration: 9  
> 
> iteration: 10  
> 
> 
> 
> However when I run this loop, all iteration numbers are showing only after
> completion of all calculation, so could not achieve my goal. Can somebody
> help me out, how can I do that?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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