Problems installing ESS on Sun Solaris with XEmacs 21.1
A.J. Rossini
rossini at blindglobe.net
Wed Feb 21 15:31:11 CET 2001
>>>>> "SL" == Steve Lawrence <huskyeagle at mediaone.net> writes:
SL> One question I did have was about the possibility of using ESS
SL> as a way round the problem of memory in loops. I am not too
SL> sure what the deal is with memory in Splus - I was told by my
SL> econometrics professor that running large simulation loops on
SL> Splus eats memory very quickly. I checked the S newsgroups and
SL> it seems that this is caused by Splus keeping a backlog of
SL> undo information. It occured to me that it should be possible
SL> to get around this by using macros within ESS.
SL> I set up a C-x e macro to repeat the last command (which
SL> sourced my loop file). I then used C-u 100 C-x e to repeat
SL> this macro 100 times. However, I noticed from the ps command
SL> that the memory used by splus was still increasing linearly. I
SL> am not sure if this is by as much as it would have had I run
SL> everything in a loop, but it still increases.
I'm not sure, either. how much of it might be due to the operation?
SL> Do you have any suggestions as to how to get around this
SL> memory problem - especially ones that use ESS in the
SL> solution!?
Hmm... You could use S-elsewhere to to send different chunks to
different computers, but I'm not certain that will help.
SL> Two final questions : help does not seem to work (claims that
SL> reporter could not be loaded). Is this just a case of
SL> installing another package (like was done with comint)? The
SL> other question is why the auto complete does not work for me,
SL> even after resynching. Is this a mistake in the way I (or the
SL> system administrator) configured ESS?
It is a matter of installing another package (ala comint).
best,
-tony
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A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics
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