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From: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
To: Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>,
	Daniele Pizzolli <dan@toel.it>,
	org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Evaluating R source code line by line
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:38:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vblf2vdd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437630D3-66D0-4D3F-BCD2-5F1731776CAC@agrarianresearch.org>

Hi Vikas,

2014ko abenudak 13an, Vikas Rawal-ek idatzi zuen:
> 
> On 13-Dec-2014, at 3:42 pm, Daniele Pizzolli <dan@toel.it> wrote:
>> Look at:
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html
>> 
>> Use ESS to step through evaluation line-by-line
>> 
>> Use C-c ' to visit the edit buffer for your code block
>> Use ess-eval-line-and-step to evaluate each line in turn
>> 
>> ess-eval-line-and-step is usually bound to C-c C-n
> 
> I know this and use it. But since my code evaluation is quite resource
> intensive, when I later evaluate the code using C-c C-c to insert
> results in my org buffer, it would be useful to see how far it is
> progressing.

See the thread beginning at
<http://mid.gmane.org/8638cfr7ua.fsf@somewhere.org>.  I’m not sure this
feature is actually workable, however, even aside from the performance
issues alluded to in that thread.  There are various methods that babel
uses to evaluate R code, not all of which are amenable to line-by-line
echoing.  In the future, I think babel should move towards an approach
which separates the code actually evaluated in R from the contents of
the code block further.  (See my patch at
<http://mid.gmane.org/87wqa9owhv.fsf@gmail.com> for an example of what I
mean).  This will make line-by-line echoing confusing (since what would
be echoed has little relation to the actual code).

If enough people really want it, the let-binding around ess-eval-visibly-p
in ob-R.el can be removed, but IMO there should be an understanding that:
1) This won’t make all evaluation echo line-by-line.
2) Preserving line-by-line echoing mustn’t be allowed to block the
   evolution of other features that are incompatible with it.

For your use case, I would suggest adding print() calls in strategic
places in your long-running code, which will appear in the R buffer to
let you know how it’s progressing.

-- 
Aaron Ecay

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-13 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-13  2:26 Evaluating R source code line by line Vikas Rawal
2014-12-13 10:12 ` Daniele Pizzolli
2014-12-13 13:18   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-13 19:38     ` Aaron Ecay [this message]
2014-12-15 22:58       ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-16 16:32         ` Andreas Leha
2014-12-16 18:43           ` Andreas Leha

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