An Interruptible Progress Bar with OpenMP Support for C++ in R Packages

Allows to display a progress bar in the R console for long running computations taking place in c++ code, and support for interrupting those computations even in multithreaded code, typically using OpenMP.

a R package that provides a c++ interruptible progress bar with OpenMP support for c++ code in R packages

example

see a detailed example on Rcpp Gallery: http://gallery.rcpp.org/articles/using-rcppprogress/

How to build

Prerequisites:

• OpenMP support to use the multithreaded parallelized version. OpenMP is available in GCC >= 4.2

Just install it the usual way.

If you want more control, unarchive it, cd to the source directory, then type R CMD INSTALL . in the console.

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Send me a pull request with at least one test or example