[ESS] ESS: running blocks of script very slow

Matthew Landis landis at isciences.com
Thu Mar 3 18:44:13 CET 2011


For what it's worth, I'll second Kasper's recommendation.  The 
performance difference is dramatic, but I do miss being able to see the 
code blocks I've submitted.  Is there any way to have both?

On 03/03/2011 09:48 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> My experience is that turning off echoing of the script inside the R
> buffer speeds things up dramatically.  You can try putting
>
> (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)
>
> inside your .emacs
>
> Kasper
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jannis<bt_jannis at yahoo.de>  wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I am running blocks of R script using C-x C-r with Emacs/ESS on a windows machine. In my impression this is very slow even for commands with low calculation demands (e.g. defining functions etc.) compared to other GUIs that I have so far tested (Rkward, Standard R-GUI). Does anyone of you experience similar issues? Or does anybody have an idea on where to search for hints to the problem?
>>
>> My system is:
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> With Emacs GNU Emacs 23.1.1  on a windows machine. I could not figure out which ESS version is running.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Jannis
>>
>>
>>
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