[ESS] ESS: running blocks of script very slow

[Vitalie Spinu]

Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> writes:

> being sent to the *R* buffer.  My only problem with the behaviour is
> that it currently does something like
>
> +++++> POINT
>
> where I would really like
>
> +++++
>> POINT
>

This used to bother me as well and I've addressed this issue in ess-tracebug
(http://code.google.com/p/ess-tracebug/)

If 'inferior-ess-split-long-prompt' is non-nil (the default), the point
behaves exactly as you described.

Vitalie.
> or perhaps ++++ exchanged with something like <SNIP>.
>
> However, getting back to the discussion,  I can see that some people
> would prefer to see the entire output.  And turning it off purely for
> speed reasons seems to be less desirable.  Having said that, I have no
> idea on how to start fixing it.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Landis <landis at isciences.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess for no other reason than that's what I'm used to.  But sometimes I
>>> move the point and forget what exactly I submitted.  It's a very minor
>>> issue, and certainly the advantages of ESS far outweigh this minor
>>> inconvenience.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Matthew Landis, Ph.D.
>>> Research Scientist
>>
>> I think Matthew is right.  We shouldn't let him back down.
>>
>> This proposal makes it impossible to track a project.
>>
>> For record keeping and transmission of material to other people, it is
>> very important to me to have 'what actually ran' in the same file with
>> the results.  Perhaps Vitalie is still able to remember all of the
>> commands he has ever run and can link them with the output sections of
>> various files.  But  I can't.
>>
>> Turning off the commands in the output file is, well, throwing out too
>> much.  Sometimes I'm working on something and save the output file and
>> later wonder "what did I do that caused that"? And I can read the
>> code.  Or somebody sends me something, and I wonder how they get it?
>> I can't say how it looks on your system, but when I use
>>
>> (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)
>>
>> The R output buffer still shows individual lines that are sent to R,
>> but just not regions.  So it produces a very horrible record of what
>> happened.
>>
>> Now here's my question. Has this slowdown always been there?  I don't
>> think I noticed it until about 8 or 10 months ago.  It is about the
>> same time that Sweave started giving the ESS process not ready error.
>> Is there a common cause?
>>
>> pj
>>
>> --
>> Paul E. Johnson
>> Professor, Political Science
>> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
>> University of Kansas
>>
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