[R] efficiency and "forcing" questions

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 david.beede at mail.doc.gov wrote:

>
> Dear R listers --
> Thank you for the suggestions from Tony and Prof. Ripley about wintop.  My
> understanding is that wintop will monitor CPU and memory usage by process,
> so one can tell quickly if an R program is still running or not.  This is
> very useful!
>
> You should note however that the MS web page claims that wintop and the
> other PowerTools (or PowerKernel) applications should not be installed on
> Win 98 machines.  However, a search through Yahoo found users advising
> people to disregard the disclaimer on the MS website, although some of the
> other PowerTools did cause problems in Win98.

Well, I have used it many times on Win98 machines, both 98 (4.10) and 98SE
(4.10a)  so I would just ignore the warning.


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