[ESS] R starts slowly in ESS

[Richard M. Heiberger]

> Sorry, I forgot to add the operating system, I am working on a Mac and 
> I do not observe the mentioned problems on a Linux installation of R 
> 2.5 and ESS 5.3.4 

I have not personnally used R on Mac, so someone else will have to respond
to the primary question.  I do have some comments below on secondary questions.

> Meanwhile, I found out that the problem is dependent on the presence 
> of a saved workspace in a .RData file. For example, if I start R with 
> ESS in a new directory that does not contain a .RData file, it takes 
> 2-3 seconds to show the prompt and this message appears: 
> 
> > if(!exists("baseenv", mode="function")) baseenv <- function() NULL 
> > options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient -q') 
 
I am surprised that that these two lines appear only the first time a
directory is used, not after restoring .RData.


> After generating a .RData file by creating a vector a<-c(1:10) and 
> exiting R with saving the workspace, re-starting R takes about 45 
> seconds and a different prompt appears (without the aforementioned 
> message): 
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored] 
> 
> > 

What is that prompt that that came through the email as "ESC [0m"?
Are the options set correctly?
Do you have gnuclient on the MAC?  What happens when you type
  edit(anova)
  page(ls)
?


> Starting R from the bash shell however does not show this difference. 
> 
> Here is the output of sessionInfo(): 
> 
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) 
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0 
> 
> locale: 
> C 
> 
> attached base packages: 
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"   
> [7] "base" 
> 
> 
> > In addition please load both the previous R and the current R 
> > using the current current ESS.  Keep track of time. 
> > 
> > M-x R-2.4.1 
> > M-x R-2.5.0 
> > 
> > If you still have the previous ESS on your machine, also use that one. 
> > 
> 
> Staring R with version number does not work for me, and unfortunately 
> I do not have the previous ESS on my computer anymore. 

Open a file "tmp.r".  In the Emacs Menu bar, what is the contents of the 
    ESS/Start Process/other/
menu item?

 
> Best, 
> 
> Georg 

Rich