On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 13:42 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > 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.
I nominate that last line for a fortune candidate... :-) Regards, Marc ______________________________________________ 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.
