[ESS] par(ask=TRUE) locking

[Gavin Simpson]

Hi Mark,

I emailed about this in Feb (Feb 6th to be precise) and Richard
Heiberger kindly provided the answer of Ctrl-G which allowed me to get
control back to the ESS R process

HTH

G

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:18 -0500, markleeds at verizon.net wrote:
> Hi: I'm a novice in ESS so I just use it at a very basic level but I really like it. Unfortunately,
> when I run the code below, it locks up and I 
> have to kill the process using ps -aux and I'm confident that it's due to the par(ask=TRUE).
> 
> is there anything i can put in that file 
> .xemacs/init.el to make below work. I really don't use
> par(ask=TRUE) much and I can always just use source
> at an R-prompt if necessary so , if
> it's more trouble fixing this than it's worth,
> that's fine. i put the code in my init.el file
> below the R code and I don't even remember what
> the commands do ( they were all donated
> by various people on the list when I had questions) 
> but I know I need them to make ESS feel comfortable 
> for me.  Thanks.
> 
> R code that causes locking
> #==================================================
> 
> x <- data.frame(A=rnorm(100), B=rnorm(100), C=runif(100))
> par(ask=TRUE)
> sapply(names(x), function(.name) {
>   hist(x[[.name]], main=.name)
> })
> 
> 
> init.el CODE
> #==================================================
> 
> (load "/opt/mark/ess/ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site")
> (eval-after-load "comint"
> '(progn (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output'others)
> (define-key comint-mode-map "\C-a"
> 'comint-bol-or-process-mark))
> )
> 
> (defun my-ess-mode-hook ()
> (local-set-key[up] 'comint-previous-input)
> (local-set-key[down] 'comint-next-input))
> 
> (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook 'my-ess-mode-hook)
> 
> (put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)
> 
> (put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)
> 
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