showing a status message in R

Question

I\'d like to write a function that presents to the user a status message that shows something like the time, the percent complete, and the current status of a process. I can

Answer 1

The utils package contains the txtProgressBar and functions for updating it which can be used to show the percent complete of a process.

See the up1, up2 and up3 functions that are created during a call to txtProgressBar for examples of how updates are handled without scrolling the console.