On 6 October 2007 at 11:01, Scionforbai wrote: | > What features are you missing in emacs that you wish were there? Are | > these ESS features or LaTeX related features? | | is it only me or has anyone else the problem that running an R process | within emacs is way much slower than in a regular terminal/console? | (linux here)
It's just you, and if you think some more about it, you'll see why we are all grinning. [ Hint: it can't be slower, outside of ridiculous corner sitations where there isn't enough ram for Emacs and R at the same time. Or foobared setups. In all normal situations, it'll be the same. ] But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So here from the console: > system.time(replicate(100, svd(matrix(rnorm(100*100), ncol=100)))) user system elapsed 2.792 0.048 2.842 and cut&pasted from ESS > system.time(replicate(100, svd(matrix(rnorm(100*100), ncol=100)))) user system elapsed 2.736 0.048 2.787 > (Heaven's, ESS is even faster :) Output to the console, ie the Emacs buffer, may appear slower, or be slower. I don't care. I try not to print that many line. But then you get goodies like C-c C-o to 'eat up' output you didn't mean to flood the console with. Seriously, outside of spreading R on sliced bread, there is no better way to use it than with ESS. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.