[ESS] How to tell if R is ready after ess-eval-*?
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Thu Jul 7 20:45:03 CEST 2011
Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Yes the first 2.5 sec you didn't notice. A better example is this:
>
> for(i in 1:10) Sys.sleep(.5)
> cat("here\n")
>
> versus:
>
> for(i in 1:10)
> Sys.sleep(.5)
> cat("here\n")
>
> also
>
> for(i in 1:10) Sys.sleep(.5)
>
> works fine because i am treating the last line (or the only line) of
> the block, separately.
>
> These examples are pretty contrived, and in real applications
> laborious command will necessarily print something or be multi-line,
> which is happily detected.
>
> Vitalie.
>
Hi Vitalie:
Ok, I think I get it now. However, I guess we need to create a
list of functions to except from the spinner. For example,
it thinks that help.start() never ends. Perhaps, that is really
correct, I don't know. But, clearly, not what the user would
like to see.
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