[rkward-users] [rkward - Help] RE: .rk.get.structure() strange behaviour

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By: fsando

> Hello, 
> on 2009-01-25 I posted a message in sourceforge, related to
> a problem with .rk.get.structure() in Rkward. I posted that
> message because I saw that you have had exactly the same
> problem that me, i.e., that after reading (or generating)
> some data, the message "R engine busy" appears and lasts for
> 15-25 seconds, while the message .rk.get.structure(....
> appears in the pending jobs window. Could you finally found
> a solution to this problem? I have googled the web and
> nobody else seems to have experienced something similar.
> I would be very grateful if you could help me in this
> question, because I think that R/Rkward is great for
> statistics, but these long waiting times are very disappointing.
>   
> Thanks in advance,
> Angelo Santana

Sorry for not seeing your question before.

Basically the problem has largely gone away, I am not sure what exactly caused
it though I have some ideas.

It was solved by updating to the newest version which I usually do via svn rather
than the package manager. Sometimes, though, I have to first install the official
package (to get all the dependencies) then I just install from source on top
of the existing installation and things tend to work.

In short: upgrade to newest version. It may seem a bit awkward to have to do
it that way but it is my impression that rkward is in a transitional phase right
now. Hopefully that will change in the not-too-distant future.


I believe the reason for the lag may be due to some kind of bug in the way rkward
adds to R data objects to suits its own structures. This becomes worse when
the workspace contains a lot of large objects with many children (like lists
and data frames).

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