Adding a option to do not perform monitoring steps like ds.exists

[danielazoeller]

Some of our analysis are rather repetitive (i.e., performing the same thing on every variable or on different subsets). Our scripts now take a lot of time running and we would love to have the option in each function to skip monitoring steps like ds.exits

[StuartWheater]

We have plans to move much of the argument testing to the server-side as possible, which will reduce the number of invocation to the server, hence improve performance.

Are there any particular analysis/data shaping methods which you find particularly slow?

Stuart