[R] interrupt in Linux

Roger D. Peng rpeng at jhsph.edu
Mon Jun 14 22:41:22 CEST 2004


What version of R are you using?  This was  a problem in 1.8.0 but I 
think was fixed in 1.8.1.

-roger

Bickel, David wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> control-c seems to interrupt loops, but not the display of enormous objects, as when I typed the name of a several-hundred megabyte list. Is there a way to interrupt that?
> 
> control-D does not interrupt R, but kills the entire R process.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Burns [mailto:pburns at pburns.seanet.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:02 PM
> To: Bickel, David
> Subject: Re: [R] interrupt in Linux
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> 
> Are you sure that R won't interrupt?  Perhaps you are in some C
> code that doesn't pay attention to the interrupt.
> 
> I have SuSe and control-C works on all of the versions of R that
> I've tried.
> 
> 
> Patrick Burns
> 
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> Bickel, David wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know how to interrupt R in RedHat? Neither control-c nor Esc is working. What I don't want to do is close the window or kill the entire R process.
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>>Thanks,
>>David
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