Pause: Pause

In stefanavey/aveytoolkit: Toolkit of Helper Functions

Description

This function prompts for return key and waits until the return is pushed to continue execution. It is used often to view plots coded in a loop one at a time allowing the user to control when the next plot should be displayed

Usage

Pause(str = "continue", quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

str	optional string to display. Defaults to "continue".
quiet	if TRUE, no prompt is displayed. Default is FALSE

Details

The Pause function uses readline to wait until a newline character (produced by the Enter key) is given. Instead of pressing Enter, a newline character can be used to automate this waiting time.

Value

NULL is returned by invisible

Author(s)

Stefan Avey

See Also

readline, invisible

Examples

for(p in 1:10) {
  plot(-10:10, (-10:10)^p, type='b')
  Pause(paste0('see plot of x^',p+1))
}

stefanavey/aveytoolkit documentation built on March 5, 2020, 12:49 a.m.