Problems installing ESS on Sun Solaris with XEmacs 21.1

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "SL" == Steve Lawrence <huskyeagle at mediaone.net> writes:

    SL> One question I did have was about the possibility of using ESS
    SL> as a way round the problem of memory in loops. I am not too
    SL> sure what the deal is with memory in Splus - I was told by my
    SL> econometrics professor that running large simulation loops on
    SL> Splus eats memory very quickly. I checked the S newsgroups and
    SL> it seems that this is caused by Splus keeping a backlog of
    SL> undo information. It occured to me that it should be possible
    SL> to get around this by using macros within ESS.

    SL> I set up a C-x e macro to repeat the last command (which
    SL> sourced my loop file). I then used C-u 100 C-x e to repeat
    SL> this macro 100 times. However, I noticed from the ps command
    SL> that the memory used by splus was still increasing linearly. I
    SL> am not sure if this is by as much as it would have had I run
    SL> everything in a loop, but it still increases.

I'm not sure, either.  how much of it might be due to the operation?

    SL> Do you have any suggestions as to how to get around this
    SL> memory problem - especially ones that use ESS in the
    SL> solution!?

Hmm...  You could use S-elsewhere to to send different chunks to
different computers, but I'm not certain that will help.

    SL> Two final questions : help does not seem to work (claims that
    SL> reporter could not be loaded). Is this just a case of
    SL> installing another package (like was done with comint)? The
    SL> other question is why the auto complete does not work for me,
    SL> even after resynching. Is this a mistake in the way I (or the
    SL> system administrator) configured ESS?

It is a matter of installing another package (ala comint).

best,
-tony

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