[R] Finding out the number of times a loop has run

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Nov 4 11:34:43 CET 2004


Kevin Wang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Suppose I have:
>   for(i in 1:100000)
>      rnorm(100000)
> (just a fake example, as my actual example is too long)
> 
> Is it possible to get the loop to print out i each time it has run?
> Something like:
>   for(i in 1:100000) {
>      print(i)
>      rnorm(100000)
>   }
> will only print i after the loop is completed.  But if I want to print out
> i whenever it re-enters the loop, is it possible (so I know how many times
> the loop has been run)?

Kevin,

you know that all people are asked to read the FAQs (in particlular the 
R for Windows FAQs in this case - regarding buffered output!) before 
asking questions on R-help ...

Uwe


>

> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin
> 
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