[ESS] slowness problem

[Laurent ESS]

Martin Maechler a écrit :

>>>>>>"tony" == A J Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com>
>>>>>>    on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 21:33:23 +0200 writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
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>    tony> On 9/5/06, Laurent ESS <laurentESS at free.fr> wrote:
>    >> 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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>    tony> Does this happen outside of ESS?  I would expect so...
>
>me too.
>
>And then its on Windoze..   which version of R? 
>(could it be too many open files ?)
>
>
>If you can confirm the slowness "outside of ESS", 
>it's really a problem with your (installation | version) of R.
>
>Martin
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yes, it is very very very slow also when I use RGUI. The version of R is 
2.3.1