Progress bars in R (part II) – a wrapper for apply functions

11Jan10

In a previous post I gave some examples of how to make a progress bar in R. In the examples the bars were created within loops. Very often though I have situations where I would like have a progress bar when using apply(). The plyr package provides several apply-like functions also including progress bars, so […]

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R: Monitoring the function progress with a progress bar

16Mar09

Every once in while I have to write a function that contains a loop doing thousands or millions of calculations. To make sure that the function does not get stuck in an endless loop or just to fulfill the human need of control it is useful to monitor the progress. So  first I tried the […]

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