[Rd] indicating progress in RGui from a c function

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Chris Paulse wrote:

> I'm sure this issue has come up before, but searching the archives didn't
> lead me to a solution or resolution of the issue.

It is documented in the rw-FAQ: Q8.8 in the R-2.2.0-alpha version.

> I'd like to indicate progress of a calculation from within a C shared
> library to the R GUI.  The apparent function call is flush.console() after
> RPrintf, but it isn't clear to me what the easiest way to do this is.  Would
> it be possible to add a flag to RPrintf to have this done implicitly?

No.  It's a varargs function and we cannot go round changing the API.

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