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rw-faq clarification + simple question + bug(?)

2 messages · Simon Fear, Guido Masarotto

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Windows users note: the rw-faq says

|1.8) Can I use rw0xx with ESS and emacs?
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|Yes. Some time soon versions of ESS (5.1.3 has a `somewhat rough'
|prototype for rw0632) will come with support for this version of R. If
|yours does not, edit essd-r.el to have
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|    (inferior-ess-start-args       . "--ess"))
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|and make sure you give the full path to Rterm.exe as the R executable.
|(You can add other flags like --vsize 10M after -ess.)

However, if you want to use iESS edit object and many other functions in
the iESS dropdown menu, you must also first edit the distributed file
[ess-path]/lisp/essd-r32.el to reflect the pathname for your
installation of Rterm, and then before calling M-x R you MUST first
issue

M-x load-library RET essd-r32

This will become automatic in future releases of ESS, but I don't know
when that will be.

Now a simple question: I added --vsize 64M --nsize 1000000 options, but
I only get
free  total
Ncells  90030 200000
Vcells 224652 262144

Have I hit a limit or is the command actually ignored? When I give these
options to Rgui I get
free   total
Ncells  890030 1000000
Vcells 8351116 8388608


Finally, there seems to be a bug/incompatibility between rw0633 and
ess-5.1.3. It is necessary to edit out the default addition of
--no-readline within essd-r.el (at least if you don't want a warning
every start-up). I have just quickly edited

;  (let ((r-start-args  (concat "--no-readline "
  (let ((r-start-args  (concat ""

but suspect a lot of this code section is redundant now.

Incidentally, what's the problem with interfacing the cygwin bash? In
rw0632/ess despite the warnings I could use system('set') no problem.
Now it says 'set not found'. I can still do
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 STATS 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-11-2 05:59:57 i686 unknown

(I resolved my dilemma as to whether this is an ess or R report by
writing to both lists. Apologies to those who get this twice.)

Simon Fear

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On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 03:45:53PM +0100, Simon Fear wrote:
Could you try to execute Rterm outside ESS (i.e., in a dos or bash 
  window)? Doing that I get exactly your Rgui numbers and so I suspect
  that problem is in the way Rterm is called. But, please, if you
  have a minutes repeat the test on your machine.
On the contrary, this is rw not ESS. 'system' is changed in rw0633
  and now, as noted in the man page (?system), has no shell behind.
  Now, 'set' is an internal command so you have to invoke it
  using
   system("command /C set",show=T)
  or
   system("bash -c set",show=T)

  In rw0633, there is also a new 'shell' command (written by
  Brian Ripley) which provide a more natural interface to thing
  as set. Indeed,
  shell("set")
  works (and automatically remaps to one of the two forms before
  if it knows which shell you like - try ?shell to see
  the details).  
  BTW, if people try 'system' and 'shell', I will like to know
  what name they prefer. Probably, 'shell' is more near to
  the Unix system so, perhaps, it can be the base
  of the Windows 'system' with the actual system 
  renamed to something like system.helper. 
  In any case, 'shell' will remain for S+ compatibility.

  guido
  
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