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How to show the progress of code in R?


I am now dealing with a large dataset and some functions may take hours to process. I wonder how I can show the progress of the code through a progress bar or number(1,2,3,...,100). Here is an example. Thanks.

require(Kendall)
mydata=matrix(rnorm(6000*300),ncol = 300)
result=as.data.frame(matrix(nrow = 6000,ncol = 2))
for (i in 1:6000) {
  abc=MannKendall(mydata[i,])
  result[i,1]=abc$tau
  result[i,2]=abc$sl
}

By the way, I find the link https://ryouready.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/r-monitor-function-progress-with-a-progress-bar/ very usefull. However, I do not know how to combine the code in the link with my own function. Anyone has an idea? Thanks. Here is the code from the above link.

total <- 20
# create progress bar
pb <- txtProgressBar(min = 0, max = total, style = 3)
for(i in 1:total){
   Sys.sleep(0.1)
   # update progress bar
   setTxtProgressBar(pb, i)
}
close(pb)

Solution

  • This should work:

    mydata=matrix(rnorm(6000*300),ncol = 300)
    result=as.data.frame(matrix(nrow = 6000,ncol = 2))
    progression<-winProgressBar(title = "Progress bar", min = 0,max = 6000 , width = 300)
    for (i in 1:6000) {
      abc=MannKendall(mydata[i,])
      result[i,1]=abc$tau
      result[i,2]=abc$sl
      setWinProgressBar(progression, i, title=paste(round(progress/6000)*100,"% done"))
    }