R help - Feb 2005 - Simulation Progress

Hi,

I've made a function that executes a monte-carlo simulation.
It always needs a lot of time until e.g. 1Mio simulation steps are done.
So I would like to know, how many percent of the work is already done.

In an Excel/VBA Solution I could easily implement a status bar or status
window.

How could an R-Solution look like?

Carsten

Carsten Steinhoff wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've made a function that executes a monte-carlo simulation.
 > It always needs a lot of time until e.g. 1Mio simulation steps are done.
 > So I would like to know, how many percent of the work is already done.
 >
 > In an Excel/VBA Solution I could easily implement a status bar or status
 > window.
 >
 > How could an R-Solution look like?
 >
 > Carsten


I think that progress() in svMisc package (bundle SciViews on CRAN) will 
make what you are looking for: it displays progression right in the console.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

Hi!

What about use of %%, so you print every nth iteration on screen, you can
afcoures calculate how many % of iterations has already passed etc.

Some dummy example:

i <- 0
x <- 1:1000000
for (i in x) {
    if (i %% 100 == 0) {
        print(i)
    }
}

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:51:30 +0100
From: "Carsten Steinhoff" <carsten.steinhoff at gmx.de>
Subject: [R] Simulation Progress
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Hi,

I've made a function that executes a monte-carlo simulation.
It always needs a lot of time until e.g. 1Mio simulation steps are done.
So I would like to know, how many percent of the work is already done.

In an Excel/VBA Solution I could easily implement a status bar or status
window.

How could an R-Solution look like?

Carsten