[R] Slow response from Windows Rgui - caused by Word?

[jim holtman]

Start up perfmon on your system (or the task manager) and then look at
who is consuming the CPU and memory.  This will provide insight to the
problem.  You need to determine if it is a CPU problem or possibly
memory due to paging.  The tools are there for you to trouble shoot
the problem since it is probably not being caused by R unless you have
some very large objects.  The task manager will tell you how much
memory a process is consuming.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Jon Olav Skoien
<jon.skoien at jrc.ec.europa.eu> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I quite often experience a delayed response when I type in the console of
> the RGui of my computer. When typing a command, the text only appears
> letter-by-letter on the console if I type rather slow (maximum 1-2 letters
> per second), otherwise it appears some time after I finished writing the
> complete command. Moving back and forth in a command with arrows keys are
> similarly slow if I need to correct something (which I often have to do,
> given that I cannot read while writing).
>
> Although this might sound like a minor problem (thinking takes more time
> than writing when programming, and writing should anyway take place in a
> proper text editor), it is quite annoying, especially when I just want to
> rerun a long command after changing something at the start of the line.
>
> Strangely, it seems that this problem starts when I open a Word-document,
> and it stops when I close all open Word-documents. I do not have any
> problems with other programs (including other programs from the office
> package), and computation seems to run as quick as normal.
>
> Some info about my system:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252  [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                         [5] LC_TIME=English_United
> States.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base    >
> objects()
> character(0)
>
> And as Word seems to be connected to the problem - I am running Windows 7
> Pro with Office 2007, the only Add-In to Word is Endnote (version 9). I have
> turned off the instant formatting option, as it also caused some other
> problems.
>
> Does anyone have a clue how I can have a Word document open and at the same
> time work with R without having this delayed response?
>
> Best wishes,
> Jon
>
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