[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 25/06/12 15:24, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> You can always move the point to the "last place" (not sure what the technical term is) by C-c
> C-e (works in an comint buffer).

I haven't tried it, but I guess that without the comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output variable set,
it will be in the middle again before I can presss Ctrl-c to interrupt R.

> 
> I set R options in my ~/.Rprofile.

As I mentioned, I start R under ESS with the --vanilla option, which does not load any config
files. The reason is that I run simulations locally and on a cluster and would like to keep
settings consistent without having to worry about different config files.

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:52 +0200 wrote:
>> 
>>>> If you didn't set comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output then this is reasonable. Comint will
>>>> not scroll the buffer unless you are at the end of it.
>> 
>>> I'll try if this changes anything and give some feedback.
>> 
>>> This seems to have solved the problem: The cursor is always at the end, so a Ctrl-c is
>>> accepted.
>> 
>> Ok, I only now see the problem. So Ctrl-c works only after the process mark. Then, I would
>> say that this is a bug in comint or ESS. Will investigate.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I guess you know about max.print option. Set it to something small, like 1000, to avoid
>>>> the listing of big objects.
>> 
>>> I should actually. But I am starting R with --vanilla, so the defaults are used - is there
>>> a way in ESS that I can set options? (I am sure there is)
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>> 
>>> Rainer
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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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