[ESS] How to tell if R is ready after ess-eval-*?

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Wed May 4 23:42:39 CEST 2011


On 05/ 4/11 02:31 AM, Ulrich Keller wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> maybe I am missing something obvious here, but how can I tell when R is
> ready after sending a longer-running command with e.g. ess-eval-line?
> For example, if I send this:
>
> Sys.sleep(5)
>
> with ess-eval-line, the minibuffer will immediately say "Finished
> evaluation" and the process buffer will show the usual prompt (">").
> However, R will not accept input for 5 seconds.
>

Hi Ulrich:

I do not see this behavior.  Rather, I do get the spurious
"Finished evaluation" message, but I do not see the new prompt until 5s
have expired.

Rodney



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