[R] pause in function execution

[Remko Duursma]

Have you tried flush.console() ?

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 10/02/2009, at 12:09 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote:
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>> Yes, Windows has that in the Misc menu, but I don't see a way to do
>> this on the Mac.
>
>        In my experience output is not buffered on a Mac.
>        Are you actually *printing* out the results you want to see?
>
>        Could you, as the posting guide requests, provide a minimal
>        self-contained example?
>
>                cheers,
>
>                        Rolf Turner
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>>> On 09/02/2009 5:07 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to have a function which gets data, does a
>>>> calculation  and prints a result and then waits some number of
>>>> seconds and  repeats.  If I use Sys.sleep, the execution is pausing
>>>> but the  function output is buffered so that it all comes out when
>>>> the function  terminates.  How can I get output while the function
>>>> continues to  execute?
>>>
>>> Turn off buffering.  In Windows, this is a menu item. Presumably
>>> it's possible on whatever platform you're using.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
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