Re: [O] asynchronous code evaluation

[Johannes Rainer]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:27:01AM +0200, Johannes Rainer wrote:
> hi all!
>
> I have some pretty calculation intense R code in a code block and when I
> execute the code (C-c C-c) my emacs freezes and waits for the code to
> finish. Is there a way to evaluate the code asynchronously, so that I could
> edit the file (obviously not the code block itself) while the code is being
> evaluated?

Not sure that is a possibility yet.  For the moment you could try
asynchronous export as a workaround.

yes, I will do that. I just realized that I have to set ess-ask-for-ess-directory to nil, otherwise the async export hangs because it tries to ask where to start R.

 

That said, I am curious why you are knowingly tying a computationally
intensive (possibly buggy, during development i.e.) process with your
editor.  I have to work on some fairly computationally intensive
analysis with Python.  I always keep them in separate modules and
scripts run from the shell.

well, I'm using emacs/org for my data analyses in R. I thus combine documentation (i.e. the conclusions drawn from e.g. plots created in R) and the R code to perform the analysis in my org file. Since I'm analysing high throughput data some tasks to handle the data are quite time consuming.

cheers, jo

 

Hope this helps,

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