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

Here's some bling bling. From ?tcltk::tkProgressBar.

pb <- tkProgressBar("test progress bar", "Some information in %",
        0, 100, 50)
Sys.sleep(0.5)
u <- c(0, sort(runif(20, 0 ,100)), 100)
for(i in u) {
    Sys.sleep(0.1)
    info <- sprintf("%d%% done", round(i))
    setTkProgressBar(pb, i, sprintf("test (%s)", info), info)
}
Sys.sleep(5)
close(pb)