Re: [PATCH] async process in R

[Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com>]

Hello Chuck,

> OK. The patch works when applied on top of the previous 2 (but the second one has the same name, so there is that to watch out for).
Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure to provide unique names for
patches in the future.
>
> However, I think we are not quite home free. With `:async no', this works as expected:
>
> #+begin_src R :session *R*  :results output :async no
>   Sys.sleep(2)
>   1:5
>   10:
>     a
>   1:2
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 
> : [1] 1 2 3 4 5
> : 
> : Error: object 'a' not found
> : 
> : [1] 1 2
>
> But changing to `:async yes', the error aborts in a way that omits the output.

Interesting, I haven't thought about errors cases enough. Async process
will be on the 9.5 release and this issue will be next on the todo list.
Many thanks again for the feedback.


It does help,

Jeremie