blind computation

[Xao Ping <xao_ping@yahoo.com>]

Dear All:

I am working with S+6.2 under Win XP. With this version I am having difficulties which I did not have with the previous ones. I am performing a long simulation and trying to keep track of the current status of my computation. I previous versions, I used to just send a one-line info to screen after a certain number of loops. My understanding is that S+6.2 does not allow to print anything to the screen until the loop is ended. What I see is just a grey screen without ability even to minimaze it. Hence, I use ' write.table ' to send the info to an external file. However, S+6.2 does not allow me an access to this status file either until the loop is ended. Is there a way around this problem? I appreciate everybody's advise. But even more I would ask the Insightful people, what is the motivation behind this seemingly impractical modification and what is their idea how a user should keep track of his computations.

 

Thank you in advance

 

Xao Ping

R&R pharmakinetics

Taiwan

 

 

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