Progress package

[Pierre de Villemereuil]

Hi,

Thanks for your input. I'll report that to the maintainer of "progress" and see what gives.

Cheers,
Pierre.

Le vendredi 2 novembre 2018, 23:42:40 CET meik michalke a écrit :
> hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, 2. November 2018, 22:55:24 CET schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:26:57 +0100
> > Pierre de Villemereuil <pierre.de.villemereuil at mailoo.org> wrote:
> > > Is there any reason why the "progress" package doesn't display
> > > progress bars in RKWard?
> > 
> > I have not quite figured out the details, but essentially: It doesn't
> > want to display the bar, because it thinks it's not supported, for
> > some reason.
> 
> without looking at any of the code of the package, the precise list of 
> applications where the package will run to me reads like it needed special 
> implementation to reach that goal. so it probably checks its environment to 
> decide which implementation to use, and doesn't find one for RKWard.
> 
> just a hunch.
> 
> > > Anything I need to do to make RKWard work nicely with "progress"?
> > > Would be sad that a GUI cannot display a progress bar where the CLI
> > > can! ;)
> 
> FWIW, it's not that RKWard is incapable of showing progress bars -- 
> utils::txtProgressBar() works well[*]. the progress package seems to demand 
> some special treatment. if my hunch goes in the right direction, it's probably 
> something the package authors need to fix, not us.
> 
> 
> viele grüße :: m.eik
> 
> 
> [*] @thomas: we could actually capture that and replace it by a GUI progress 
> bar instead of the R console, couldn't we?
>