[rkward-users] Console printing behavior

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Monday 08 November 2010, Gilles San Martin wrote:
> There is however a behavior of the console that I really find annoying :
> when you run a block of code from a script the console displays first
> the block of code and then all the prints. Is it possible to change this
> behavior so that the prints follow immediately the code that have
> generated it (as if you had executed the code line by line - I hope this
> explanation is explicit enough...) ?

I know what you mean. You cannot currently configure RKWard to work this way.

What you can do is either press and hold Shift+F7, or copy the code and paste 
it into the console. However, when you do, you will also notice the reason why 
this is not the default behavior: For long statements (e.g.:
  x <- function {
    # dozens of lines inside
  }
) this is quite slow (pasting this is somewhat slow in a plain R session, too, 
but not quite as pronounced).

It can think of several approaches to improve on this, but each would take 
some time to implement. If you know a bit of C++, and you are willing to help, 
I'll be happy to give you some details on what I have in mind (on the rkward-
devel list). 

Otherwise, you could add this to our feature request tracker 
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=459010&group_id=50231) to make sure 
we'll remember to look into it, later. But currently other issues are higher 
up on my TODO list, and so I will not promise any time frame.

Regards
Thomas
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