[Rd] 1.8.0 on Unix: interrupting huge print()s ??

[Roger D. Peng]

I've noticed this too (on Linux) and just considered it the price of 
doing business.  More than once I've hit Ctrl-Z and killed the process.  
Not exactly a solution, though :)

-roger

Martin Maechler wrote:

>NEWS for R 1.8.0 has
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>>> USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
>>>
>>>     <......>
>>>
>>>     o	On Unix-like systems interrupt signals now set a flag that is
>>>	 checked periodically rather than calling longjmp from the
>>>	 signal handler.	 This is analogous to the behavior on Windows.
>>>	 This reduces responsiveness to interrupts but prevents bugs
>>>	 caused by interrupting computations in a way that leaves the
>>>	 system in an inconsistent state.  It also reduces the number
>>>	 of system calls, which can speed up computations on some
>>>	 platforms and make R more usable with systems like Mosix.
>>>      
>>>
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>and this has already caused grief here
>(actually it has several days ago, when I switched our users to
> R-1.8.0beta  __ BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL ANY R DEVELOPER __ )
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>for a user who does use *large* matrices.
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>When accidentally calling print() {implicitly}, we have been
>used here to press CTRL+c (twice in Emacs ESS!) for stopping the
>output.
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>This no longer works in R 1.8.0 at least on our unix platforms.
>To reproduce, type
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>  cbind(1:1e6)
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>and try to cut it short (it only takes a minute or so,
>whereas our user here had a matrix that needed more than 10
>minutes of screen output !)
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