[ESS] Viewing data frames

[Mathieu Basille]

Dear Stephen,

Sorry for the late answer: debugging took me some time as I had to go
from home to work and back, using .RData files on 2 different computers.
You were actually right: ess-execute-screen-options is actually executed 
as expected, even with large .RData files. My mistake. I generally use a 
remote access to my work machine through ssh, and I have then to launch 
R manually. Thus the manual execution of ess-execute-screen-options 
which totally confused me... Sorry for the noise.

However, I still have troubles with ess-execute-screen-options. On a 
large screen, if R opens in a buffer in the right column, the width of R 
is adjusted to the whole window. I have to adjust it by hand a 
posteriori with ess-execute-screen-options, which now adjusts to the 
buffer width. Not sure why the buffer width is not taken into account on 
R launch, as the R console confirms that screen options are used.

With a fresh .emacs, it seems that it conflicts somehow with

(setq inferior-ess-same-window nil)

which actually opens the R buffer below the editing buffer, or on the
right if the screen is large enough (great behaviour btw!). I also
noticed that 'C-c w' no longer work with my setting, while I was sure it
worked before... Weird.

Mathieu.



Le 2011-03-01 04:46, Stephen Eglen a écrit :
>> (defun my-ess-post-run-hook ()
>>   (ess-execute-screen-options)
>>   (local-set-key "\C-c w" 'ess-execute-screen-options))
>> (add-hook 'ess-post-run-hook 'my-ess-post-run-hook)
>>
>> which is supposed to run ess-execute-screen-options when I start a new
>> R. Note that this doesn't work if a .RData is loaded, which can be
>> problematic when working on several computers: here you have to use
>> 'C-c
>> w' to do it by hand.
>
> Can you debug this - sounds a bit odd, and may affect other things.  Is
> it that the .RData file is big, and hence takes a long time to load?
> Does it not work even for small .RData files?  And does it report an
> error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

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