[R] efficiency and "forcing" questions

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 28 Mar 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> >>>>> "db" == david beede <david.beede at mail.doc.gov> writes:
>
>     db> B.  I say "seems" because after running the program for an
>     db> hour, I type ctl-G to quit.  The *R* session seemed to be
>     db> terminated, with about 40 or so groups processed, so I opened
>     db> up another R session to try to see what had happened.  After I
>     db> quit the second session, suddenly the first session seemed to
>     db> come back to life and spit out the printed output for the rest
>     db> of the groups!  So I wonder if there is something I need to
>     db> add to my program to "force" it to finish processing?  (I
>     db> apologize for the inarticulate way I am posing this question!)
>
> This delay "might" be due to problems with Emacs.
>
> (reason for cc'ing r-help) Is there anything comparable to "top" on
> unix, for windows, so that you can track process status?

Task Manager on NT/2000/XP; right-click taskbar.
wintop (a `powertoy') on 95/98/Me: download from Microsoft

>
> best,
> -tony
>
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