Keeping track of the code’s progress

Progress bars

Sometimes, you want to include a progress bar in your pipeline, to see how much code has been executed and how much is left.

Here are some possibilities to do that.

The purrr package

purrr::walk(1:3, Sys.sleep, .progress = TRUE)

The cli package

You can also create a progress bar with the cli package. Please refer to this article which presents several possibilities to create a progress bar.

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{lettry2023,
  author = {Lettry, Layal Christine},
  title = {Progress Bars},
  date = {2023-10-12},
  url = {https://rdiscovery.netlify.app/posts/2023-10-12_progress-bars/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Lettry, Layal Christine. 2023. “Progress Bars.” October 12, 2023. https://rdiscovery.netlify.app/posts/2023-10-12_progress-bars/.