[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Douglas Bates]

Why not use

str(x)

before asking for a display of the complete object?  The str function,
written by Martin, provides a concise overview of any R object.  Other
alternatives for data frames in particular are

head(x, n)  # display the first n rows, the default for n is 6

and

tail(x, n)

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I sometimes want to see an object / dataframe (lets call it x) in R and, only after issuing the
> command to print it(> x), that it x is a HUGE dataframe and it takes literally minutes to print. I
> am not able to interrupt the printing with Ctrl-c as I used to be, as the cursor is in the middle
> of the screen and not at the end of the output. Interrupting via the menu also does not work ("No
> command on this line"). The only thing I can do is either wait or kill R
>
> Is it possible to make sure that the cursor stays at the end of the output, so that I can
> interrupt the printing?
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
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