On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Spencer Graves wrote:
You've just described a known bug with buffering S-Plus 6.1 as well.
Fortunately, you can turn this off via Options -> "General Settings" ->
Buffering: Turn it off or reduce the "Flush timeout" to something like 20.
You can toggle it on and off with Ctrl-W.
I turn it off routinely. This can be turned off permanently, but it requires
standing on one's head in a very special way; I did it once under coaching
from Insightful Tech Support and promptly forgot how.
All you have to do is to set it off and save the preferences with the last
line of the Options menu -- hardly complicated!
Perhaps someone else can tell us how to access a file as "read only"
while S-Plus is still writing to it. That should be possible, but I don't
know how. hope this helps. spencer graves
Any decent editor can do it, e.g. Emacs, or running a Windows version of
less or tail -f in a terminal window.
Xao Ping wrote:
Dear All:
I am working with S+6.2 under Win XP. With this version I am having
difficulties which I did not have with the previous ones. I am performing a
long simulation and trying to keep track of the current status of my
computation. I previous versions, I used to just send a one-line info to
screen after a certain number of loops. My understanding is that S+6.2 does
not allow to print anything to the screen until the loop is ended. What I
see is just a grey screen without ability even to minimaze it. Hence, I use
' write.table ' to send the info to an external file. However, S+6.2 does
not allow me an access to this status file either until the loop is ended.
Is there a way around this problem? I appreciate everybody's advise. But
even more I would ask the Insightful people,
This is not the address to `ask the Insightful people', but I have seen it
in the 6.x documentation. If you list a 10,000 x 100 matrix to the
console you will discover why it is a Good Idea.
what is the motivation behind
this seemingly impractical modification and what is their idea how a user
should keep track of his computations.
Insightful Technical Support can point you at where exactly this is
documented.
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