Message-ID: <9E07A087-89CE-4BE7-9152-511813BF7589@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-02-09T23:09:08Z
From: Fuchs Ira
Subject: pause in function execution
In-Reply-To: <4990B366.303@stats.uwo.ca>
Yes, Windows has that in the Misc menu, but I don't see a way to do
this on the Mac.
On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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