R devel - Jan 2005 - print() from within a function - Windows specific? ( PR# 7584)

It really pays to RTFM sometimes: 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-output-to-the-con
sole-seems-to-be-delayed

Andy
> From: markus.liedgens@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch
> 
> Full_Name: Markus Liedgens
> Version: Ever since 1.6
> OS: Windows 98 / Windows Xp
> Submission from: (NULL) (81.63.111.226)
> 
> 
> To control the progress of a function one can consider to use 
> print() to issue a
> message in the command window. However, using Win98 / R 1.9 
> or WinXP / R 2.0,
> this approach is of little usefulness, since all the print() 
> commands are issued
> at once, just before the control returns to the command 
> window. A test code
> could be:
> 
> for(i in 1:10){
>  for(j in 1:1000){
>   for(k in 1:1000){}
>  }
>  print(i)
> }
> 
> I once ask a linux / unix user and he was not able to 
> reproduce the problem.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Markus Liedgens
> Institut f?r Pflanzenwissenschaften - ETH Z?rich
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> 8315 Lidau, Switzerland
> e-mail: markus.liedgens@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch
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