Progressbar for ncore > 1

[Lars Skjærven]

avoid jumping behavior of the progressbar for various functions (e.g. pdbsplit) when ncore > 1

[Xinqiu Yao]

This was indeed added to the ToDo long time ago (See "Tidy up codes related to parallelization"). Currently I use the solution from "StackOverflow", i.e. creating a child process watching a temp file that is shared by all cores. Some examples can be found in dccm.pca() and the cnapath(). The disadvantage is the run-time writing to HD, which may not be so satisfying (although it works fine in those examples). Let me know what you think, or if you have any other solutions.

[Xinqiu Yao]

Hi,

I've fixed the problem with the recently added internal functions for progress bar printing. (See this commit).

The "three-step method" could also be implemented in many other functions that support ncore>1:

pb <- .init.pb(ncore, min=0, max=XX)

...

# Within loop: 
#    here step can be any positive number to allow finer control of printing.
 .update.pb(pb, step=1)

...

.close.pb(pb)

[Lars Skjærven]

great update. thanks!