[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 21/06/12 16:20, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:53:04 +0200 wrote:
> 
>> On 21/06/12 15:51, Douglas Bates wrote:
>>> Why not use
> 
>> If I remember that it might be a larger object, I usually do that - but I sometimes forget
>> and then....
> 
> C-c C-c in iESS should work for data.frames (albeit with some delay). It doesn't work if you
> cat(huge_string).
> 
> I guess the interruption mechanism has to do with underlying R. From Emacs side it's probably
> close to nothing what could be done to improve that.

Probably related: after printing (as above) a large object, the cursor stays in the middle of the
visible part of the emacs buffer and the end of the object is below the bottom of the buffer.

Rainer

> 
> Vitalie.
> 
>>> 
>>> 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: Hi
>>> 
>>> 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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> 


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