[ESS] slowness problem

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "tony" == A J Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 21:33:23 +0200 writes:

    tony> On 9/5/06, Laurent ESS <laurentESS at free.fr> wrote:
    >> A.J. Rossini a écrit :
    >> 
    >> > On 9/4/06, Laurent ESS <laurentESS at free.fr> wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> Dear ESS-list,
    >> >>
    >> >> I use Xemacs 21.4.13 and ESS 5.3.0 with windoze XP. I
    >> use Sweave.  >> I have the following problem : often on
    >> an .rnw file, the first time I >> compile my file with
    >> Sweave all works fine. But after several >> compilations,
    >> the slowness becomes dramatic : the compilation stops a
    >> >> very, very long time on the first chunk before
    >> completing all the >> others. It is very boring ! Is
    >> there a simple solution because I would >> like to
    >> continue working with Xemacs ?
    >> >
    >> >
    >> > Hi Laurent -
    >> >
    >> > You need to be more explicit for how you are starting
    >> Sweave -- from a > script, makefile, or using M-x
    >> ess-makeSweave ?  If the latter, you > might be
    >> collecting garbage that needs to be cleared out.
    >> >
    >> > best, > -tony
    >> >
    >> > blindglobe at gmail.com > Muttenz, Switzerland.  > "Commit
    >> early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which
    >> we > can easily > roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
    >> >
    >> >
    >> When Xemacs is opened, I have two windows. My file
    >> toto.rnw is opened in the upper window and I type in the
    >> lower windows the following command :
    >> 
    >> > Sweave("toto.rnw")
    >> 

    tony> Does this happen outside of ESS?  I would expect so...

me too.

And then its on Windoze..   which version of R? 
(could it be too many open files ?)


If you can confirm the slowness "outside of ESS", 
it's really a problem with your (installation | version) of R.

Martin