[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 14:16:48 CEST 2012
>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
>> on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:52 +0200 wrote:
>> If you didn't set comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output then this is reasonable. Comint will not
>> scroll the buffer unless you are at the end of it.
> I'll try if this changes anything and give some feedback.
> This seems to have solved the problem: The cursor is always at the end, so a Ctrl-c is accepted.
Ok, I only now see the problem. So Ctrl-c works only after the process
mark. Then, I would say that this is a bug in comint or ESS. Will
investigate.
Thanks.
>>
>> I guess you know about max.print option. Set it to something small, like 1000, to avoid the
>> listing of big objects.
> I should actually. But I am starting R with --vanilla, so the defaults are used - is there a way
> in ESS that I can set options? (I am sure there is)
> Thanks,
> 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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