'How to provide a tidy R console update message in RStudio?

This code lets me leave a nice message (on Windows) in the R console, without fill up the screen:

imax <- 2000
for (i in seq_len(imax)) {
    mess <- sprintf("slightly different length message: %i", i)
    message(paste(rep("\b", nchar(mess)), collapse = ""), appendLF = FALSE)
    message(mess, appendLF = i == imax)
    flush.console()
}

In RStudio the backspace character doesn't work and I get horrible appended messages everywhere.

How can I do this nicely in both Rgui and RStudio?

What about cross-platform?

r rstudio

Solution 1:^[1]

You can use cat using \r, that is

cat("\r", "slightly different length message:", i)

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'How to provide a tidy R console update message in RStudio?

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