[ESS] ESC-Function in R - Where is it in ESS?

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Apr 28 17:47:23 CEST 2009


Friedericksen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> wow, thats good, so maybe you know a solution.
> I'm after the data the loop has generated so far. The stupid thing is, 
> that it only returns the data, when the loop has finished, but I think 
> that would take weeks. So I searched for a solution to stop the loop 
> without loosing the data, and it is in normal R to press the ESC button. 
>  This seems to be somewhere else in Emacs with ESS. And also there  is 
> the problem of WinBUGS poping up the whole time and in this time, the R 
> process in Emacs is read only. :/
> 
> When I close winbugs manually, the loop will give an error and all data 
> is lost (I tried that before on another simulation). So... maybe you 
> know a solution?
> 
> I thought of slowing the system down with some other process, so that it 
> takes longer until WinBUGS starts again and I could use this time to run 
> some command in *R*. But the problem is then: Which command? (Where is 
> the ESC command?) :)
> 
> Or maybe you know some other solution :)
> 
> Greetings
> 

Can you send me an example?  I'm using R2WinBUGS with Wine on both Mac 
OS X and Solaris x64.  Which platform are you on?

Rodney



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