Dear all, I'm working with R 1.2.2 on win98 (256Mb RAM) with ESS 5.1.18. It happens that the start-up is very slow. I don't know exactly how to measure, but with a simple watch I recorded 15 seconds, while the startup of S+ 2000 (Sqpe+4 under ESS) takes around 3 seconds. Tha fact is that sometimes it takes almost a minute (58.30 sec recorded) for the prompt to appear! And ESS gives me an error ******************************* Stefano Calza Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria Universit? degli Studi di Milano Via G. Venezian, 1 20133 Milano tel. +39 02/2361302, 02/70600908 fax 02/2362930 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Stefano wrote:> Dear all, > > I'm working with R 1.2.2 on win98 (256Mb RAM) with ESS 5.1.18. > It happens that the start-up is very slow. I don't know exactly how to measure, but with a simple watch I recorded 15 seconds, while the startup of S+ 2000 (Sqpe+4 under ESS) takes around 3 seconds.How fast is starting Rterm in a terminal window? It takes around a second on my 366MHz machine. If that is fast, it is an ESS problem, better sent to the ESS list (and possibly better sent there anyway: see the rw-FAQ). Do you have an existing .RData? That can take a long time to read, if large and complex objects are in it. Try timing Rterm --vanilla. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>How fast is starting Rterm in a terminal window? It takes around a second >on my 366MHz machine. If that is fast, it is an ESS problem, better sent >to the ESS list (and possibly better sent there anyway: see the rw-FAQ). > >Do you have an existing .RData? That can take a long time to read, >if large and complex objects are in it. Try timing Rterm --vanilla.Yes, it's extremly faster in terminal window, about 4 sec considering and .Rdata of about 22Mb. Thank you and sorry for the OT, Stefano ******************************* Stefano Calza Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria Universit? degli Studi di Milano Via G. Venezian, 1 20133 Milano tel. +39 02/2361302, 02/70600908 fax 02/2362930 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._