[ESS] any way to speed up Emacs\ESS?

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Put
   (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)
in your .emacs for letting this be the default behaviour

Kasper


On Feb 15, 2009, at 17:32 , G. Jay Kerns wrote:

> Dear Chuck,
>
> Wow!  That was exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you very much.
>
> Best,
> Jay
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Charles C. Berry <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu 
> > wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, G. Jay Kerns wrote:
>>
>>> Dear ESS-help,
>>>
>>> I like Emacs/ESS very much, and have used it on and off for a year
>>> now.  I have tried lots of things, looking for the "best" (whatever
>>> that means).  I keep coming back to Emacs/ESS, partly because I like
>>> its philosophy, and partly for its sheer power.  I am this moment  
>>> on a
>>> laptop with 32-bit Ubuntu Intrepid;  I am using GNU-Emacs 22.2-0 and
>>> ESS 5.13-11.
>>>
>>> Consider the following example code, just for the sake of  
>>> discussion:
>>>
>>> x <- rnorm(100)
>>> y <- rnorm(100)
>>> x + y
>>> exp(x)
>>> length(y)
>>> min(x)
>>> max(y)
>>>
>>> If I put this in a frame "scratch.R" and send it to the [*R*] buffer
>>> with Eval region, it takes approx 1.5 seconds on my system before
>>> everything is done and the "Finished evaluation" message appears.   
>>> It
>>> takes around the same amount of time if I yank the above text into  
>>> the
>>> [*R*] buffer and press RET.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I can copy-paste the same code into a terminal  
>>> and
>>> it finishes instantaneously (well, before my finger leaves Ctrl 
>>> +v).  I
>>> get similar speed with Sciviews-K, for instance.
>>>
>>> Now, the other merits of Emacs/ESS are more than enough to  
>>> outweigh a
>>> few seconds here and there, but the waiting time seems to be
>>> proportional to the script length, and I am wondering:  is there  
>>> some
>>> trick, or something I can put in my .emacs (for example), or some
>>> other way to streamline things to make these evaluations faster?
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> C-h v ess-eval-region RET
>>
>>       ess-eval-region is an interactive Lisp function in `ess- 
>> inf.el'.
>>       (ess-eval-region START END TOGGLE &optional MESSAGE)
>>
>>       Send the current region to the inferior ESS process.
>>       With prefix argument toggle the meaning of `ess-eval-visibly- 
>> p';
>>       this does not apply when using the S-plus GUI, see
>>       `ess-eval-region-ddeclient'.
>>
>> 'Nother words try selecting a region, then sending
>>
>>       C-u C-c C-r
>>
>> (assuming standard bindings)
>>
>> and see what you get.
>>
>> On my Windows XP PC, selecting all of a *.R file and doing that is  
>> ever so
>> slightly longer than source("that.file.R") and about 70 times  
>> faster than
>> plain old C-c C-r.
>>
>> It does echo some prompts (and this is version 5.3.8 in case this  
>> behavior
>> is different now) , but if you can live with that, this might do.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I did some quick searching on Google, the ESS manual, etc, and  
>>> didn't
>>> see anything immediately relevant.  If it can't be fixed, that's  
>>> fine,
>>> but if there is something I am missing I would really appreciate  
>>> some
>>> pointers.
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> BTW:  I did see the below thread, and even tried it out, but it  
>>> didn't
>>> seem to work for me.
>>>
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2009-January/005073.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ***************************************************
>>> G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Department of Mathematics & Statistics
>>> Youngstown State University
>>> Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
>>> Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
>>> Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
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>>>
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>>
>> Charles C. Berry                            (858) 534-2098
>>                                           Dept of Family/Preventive
>> Medicine
>> E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu               UC San Diego
>> http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/  La Jolla, San Diego  
>> 92093-0901
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> ***************************************************
> G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematics & Statistics
> Youngstown State University
> Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
> Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
> Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
> -3302 Department
> -3170 FAX
> E-mail: gkerns at ysu.edu
> http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/
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