[ESS] help in R 2.10 Windows

[Martin Maechler]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:05, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:16 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:39 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> >  > options(chmhelp = FALSE, help_type = "text")
>> >  > .help.ESS <- help
>> >  > options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe')
>> >
>> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Note the last three lines of ESS-auto-generated R code.
>> >
>> > Don't you get these?
>> I do not.
>> Ross
>>
>>
> I put this in my .emacs
> (setq ess-loop-timeout 200000000)
> but it doesn't seem to have affected the variable after I start, which
> still shows as 2000000 (I multiplied x 100).
>
> Oh, maybe I need to put the setting in some kind of mode-specific hook?

Yes, either that [inferior-ess-mode-hook] , or -- simpler --
(setq ess-S-loop-timeout (* 100 2000000))

Martin