R: Text Progress Bar

txtProgressBar {utils}

R Documentation

Text Progress Bar

Description

Text progress bar in the R console.

Usage

txtProgressBar(min = 0, max = 1, initial = 0, char = "=",
               width = NA, title, label, style = 1, file = "")

getTxtProgressBar(pb)
setTxtProgressBar(pb, value, title = NULL, label = NULL)
## S3 method for class 'txtProgressBar'
close(con, ...)

Arguments

`min, max`	(finite) numeric values for the extremes of the progress bar. Must have `min < max`.
`initial, value`	initial or new value for the progress bar. See ‘Details’ for what happens with invalid values.
`char`	the character (or character string) to form the progress bar.
`width`	the width of the progress bar, as a multiple of the width of `char`. If `NA`, the default, the number of characters is that which fits into `getOption("width")`.
`style`	the ‘style’ of the bar – see ‘Details’.
`file`	an open connection object or `""` which indicates the console: `stderr()` might be useful here.
`pb, con`	an object of class `"txtProgressBar"`.
`title, label`	ignored, for compatibility with other progress bars.
`...`	for consistency with the generic.

Details

txtProgressBar will display a progress bar on the R console (or a connection) via a text representation.

setTxtProgessBar will update the value. Missing (NA) and out-of-range values of value will be (silently) ignored. (Such values of initial cause the progress bar not to be displayed until a valid value is set.)

The progress bar should be closed when finished with: this outputs the final newline character.

style = 1 and style = 2 just shows a line of char. They differ in that style = 2 redraws the line each time, which is useful if other code might be writing to the R console. style = 3 marks the end of the range by | and gives a percentage to the right of the bar.

Value

For txtProgressBar an object of class "txtProgressBar".

For getTxtProgressBar and setTxtProgressBar, a length-one numeric vector giving the previous value (invisibly for setTxtProgressBar).

Note

Using style 2 or 3 or reducing the value with style = 1 uses \r to return to the left margin – the interpretation of carriage return is up to the terminal or console in which R is running, and this is liable to produce ugly output on a connection other than a terminal, including when stdout() is redirected to a file.

Examples

 # slow
testit <- function(x = sort(runif(20)), ...)
{
    pb <- txtProgressBar(...)
    for(i in c(0, x, 1)) {Sys.sleep(0.5); setTxtProgressBar(pb, i)}
    Sys.sleep(1)
    close(pb)
}
testit()
testit(runif(10))
testit(style=3)

[Package utils version 2.15.1 Index]