[R] How to stop buffering of "cat"

[Tony Plate]

If you're using Rgui under Windows, see FAQ 7.1:

> 7.1 When using Rgui the output to the console seems to be delayed.
> This is deliberate: the console output is buffered ...

(the FAQ says how to turn it off -- it's a menu item).

Vidhu Choudhary wrote:
> Hi All,
> My R code takes very long time to finish the processing. I want to see at
> what stage the script is running. So I wrote some output messages using cat.
> But instead of displaying the cat messages at different stages they are
> buffered and displayed in the end when entire processing is done.
> Can you please suggest how to stop this buffering or some alternative way to
> display messages
> 
> Thank you
> Vidhu
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