2012/9/21 jennifer.moeller-gulland at de.pwc.com <jennifer.moeller-gulland at de.pwc.com>:
Dear All, We are currently working with very large datasets which even in R require a lot of calculation time. Is there an option of including a function/ tool or something alike which shows the remaining time of calculation? Just to see whether there is any progress or whether anything has crashed and to get a feeling whether we have to wait for 5 min or 30min...
I wrote a little stopwatch function that ticks elapsed time for an expression, you can find it here: http://geospaced.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/stopwatch-in-r.html but it has no way of knowing how long your process is going to take. If you have something like a loop from 1:N you can do progress bars - assorted ones are provided by the packages utils, tcltk, R.utils and plyr - install them and do ??progress for a list of functions. Barry