[ESS] slowness problem

Laurent ESS laurentESS at free.fr
Tue Sep 5 21:28:50 CEST 2006


A.J. Rossini a écrit :

> On 9/4/06, Laurent ESS <laurentESS at free.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear ESS-list,
>>
>>       I use Xemacs 21.4.13 and ESS 5.3.0 with windoze XP. I use Sweave.
>> I have the following problem : often on an .rnw file, the first time I
>> compile my file with Sweave all works fine. But after several
>> compilations, the slowness becomes dramatic : the compilation stops a
>> very, very long time on the first chunk before completing all the
>> others. It is very boring ! Is there a simple solution because I would
>> like to continue working with Xemacs ?
>
>
> Hi Laurent -
>
> You need to be more explicit for how you are starting Sweave -- from a
> script, makefile, or using M-x ess-makeSweave  ?   If the latter, you
> might be collecting garbage that needs to be cleared out.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> Muttenz, Switzerland.
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we 
> can easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>
>
When Xemacs is opened, I have two windows. My file toto.rnw is opened in 
the upper window and I type in the lower windows the following command :

 > Sweave("toto.rnw")




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