[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Ali Tofigh]

for what it's worth, in case you are using tramp to run R remotely,
you could try C-q C-c which sends a literal C-c. that happens to work
for my setup.

/ali

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
>  >> on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:53:04 +0200 wrote:
>
>  > On 21/06/12 15:51, Douglas Bates wrote:
>  >> Why not use
>
>  > If I remember that it might be a larger object, I usually do that - but I sometimes forget and
>  > then....
>
> C-c C-c in iESS should work for data.frames (albeit with some delay). It
> doesn't work if you cat(huge_string).
>
> I guess the interruption mechanism has to do with underlying R. From
> Emacs side it's probably close to nothing what could be done to improve
> that.
>
> Vitalie.
>
>  >>
>  >> str(x)
>  >>
>  >> before asking for a display of the complete object?  The str function, written by Martin,
>  >> provides a concise overview of any R object.  Other alternatives for data frames in particular
>  >> are
>  >>
>  >> head(x, n)  # display the first n rows, the default for n is 6
>  >>
>  >> and
>  >>
>  >> tail(x, n)
>  >>
>  >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote: Hi
>  >>
>  >> I sometimes want to see an object / dataframe (lets call it x) in R and, only after issuing
>  >> the command to print it(> x), that it x is a HUGE dataframe and it takes literally minutes to
>  >> print. I am not able to interrupt the printing with Ctrl-c as I used to be, as the cursor is in
>  >> the middle of the screen and not at the end of the output. Interrupting via the menu also does
>  >> not work ("No command on this line"). The only thing I can do is either wait or kill R
>  >>
>  >> Is it possible to make sure that the cursor stays at the end of the output, so that I can
>  >> interrupt the printing? Thanks,
>  >>
>  >> Rainer
>  >>
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