[ESS] Open R in an external terminal?

[Rodney Sparapani]

Harold Pimentel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am interested in opening R in an external terminal like
> vim-R-plugin. My main reason for this is that when I run large R
> functions Emacs hangs until the operation is complete. If someone has
> an answer to fix that, I'd like that better (no need to leave emacs),
> but I'm fine with opening an external process.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Harold

Hi Harold:

This was discussed recently here.  Did you try the workaround discussed, 
i.e. encasing the block of code in curly brackets {}?

Rodney