The print and echo delay from source() was caused by the Windows RGUI Misc->Buffer Output option, which is turned on by default in 1.7.1 (don't know about other versions).
Thank you for some very useful comments, and for ending a couple of days of frustration. Bruce Moore --- Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Bruce: > > I'm overwhelmed. Questioners seem to get > quicker, more informative > responses to questions that are short, well written > and easily and > quickly understood, and preferably include a toy > example that someone > else can run quickly to reproduce the problem and to > evaluate > alternative solutions. > > I see you are using "source" and would like to > get more output. Did > you check "?source"? This function in R has > arguments "echo" and > "verbose", which may produce what you want. If > you've already tried > that, then the problem may be output buffering, and > I don't know how to > modify that parameter. A search of > "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R > Site Search" might help. Or ask a question focused > specifically on > that, giving also which version of R you are using > under which operating > system. > > I rarely use "source". More often, I have R > commands in another file > and copy and paste into R the commands I want to > run. That makes it > easier for me to isolate errors, etc. > > This does not address all your questions, but > it's a start. > > Hope this helps. > spencer graves > > Bruce Moore wrote: > > I'm writing a program to perform linear > regressions to > > estimate the number of bank teller transactions > per > > hour of various types based upon day of week, time > of > > day, week of month and several prices. I've got > about > > 25,000 records in my dataset, 85 columns of > > transaction counts (used 1 at a time), about 50 > > columns of binary indicators (day, week, pay > period, > > hour, branch), and a half dozen real valued > prices. > > > > My program hangs on some regressions as I add > > interactions, probably due to logic problems in my > > code or collinearity problems in the data. > > > > 1) I'm running my program via the source() > command. > > It appears that source() does not print any > messages > > until it completes. > > > > ---->Is there a way to get diagnostic messages to > > print immediately rather than when the source() > > command has completed? > > > > 2) I'm fairly certain that I've got some > collinearity > > in the data set and the interactions. I've found > an > > append (Ott Toomet 5/30/2003) that talks about a > > procedure to find collinearity problems using > > model.matrix() to generate the dataset with > > interactions and kappa() to determine the > condition > > number of the matrix. > > > > ---->Is there a more automated way to find > collinear > > variables? > > > > 3) Is there a way to get lm() and/or step() or > some > > other package to give a model with only > coefficients > > that are significant at a particular level? > > > > 4) Is there a way to suppress display of a > password > > when using the RODBC odbcConnect() function, or to > get > > the function to prompt for a password? > > > > 5) What is the practical size limit on the number > of > > terms in model? I know that I won't be able to > > consider all interactions, but would like to have > some > > idea when to give up and go with what I've got. > > > > > > > > ===== > > Bruce Moore > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > ===== Bruce Moore ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
