How can I supress the progress bar that shows up in the R console?
Im running a self written R function on a VM that runs on ubuntu. When my script does it's thing (which takes a while) the console output looks like this:
> a = my_function("name_of_a_directory")
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screenshot of console output in R via vscode
How can I get rid of it, since it clutters my console especially since it repeats if my function does it's thing for multiple files, so that it looks like this:
> a = my_function("name_of_a_directory")
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If I run my script locally on a windows machine the progress bar does not show up so I guess it has something to do with that.
EDIT: thanks to @r2evans comment the issue was fixed. In freads documentation you find showProgress TRUE displays progress on the console if the ETA is greater than 3 seconds. It is produced in fread's C code where the very nice (but R level) txtProgressBar and tkProgressBar are not easily available.