Hi Steve, I don't have that issue with emacs 23.1, ess 5.6.1, and R 2.10 on OpenSuse 11.1. eldoc doesn't work until the current evaluation is complete, but I'm able to edit my scripts files. So there is a way to avoid the problem you describe (seems to work be default with my setup).
-Ista On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to semi-hijack this thread, but this is a question that's been > burning for a while and, well, I think it's still relevant to this > discussion :-) > > I tried using Emacs/ESS when I first started playing with R (and > bioconductor). My problem with it was that I believe R is started in > the same thread/process as emacs, so if I ran an R command that took a > long while to complete, I couldn't switch back to my source buffer and > keep messing around with my code while the R process was doing > whatever it was doing. > > Is this something that can be worked around? > > Thanks, > -steve > > > 2010/3/1 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: >> For a quick low level introduction, I found John Fox' web page for his book >> "An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression" useful: >> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/ >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> On 01.03.2010 17:41, Gustave Lefou wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>>> From the recent discussion, I have wondered where I could find some quick >>> >>> step documentation on Emacs for R (especially on Windows). >>> >>> All I have found is that 80 pages pdf http://ess.r-project.org/ess.pdf >>> >>> Maybe I am asking for too much ? >>> >>> Best, >>> Gustave >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.
