[R] CTRL-C behaviour with RODBC on Solaris2.8

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is nothing to do with RODBC, and not reproducible on any of my 
systems.

Investigate your unstated ODBC driver manager and driver for possible 
causes.  Something other than R has uninstalled the signal handler for 
SIGINT, and a rogue shared library is the likely cause.

And please learn to give credit where it is due, instead of blame where it 
is not.  (RODBC attracts far too many careless attributions of blame, this 
being the second just today.  Yet words of thanks are very, very thin on 
the ground.)


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Jagat.K.Sheth at wellsfargo.com wrote:

> After loading the RODBC package version 1.1-7, Ctrl-C changes its
> behaviour and is quitting R and returning to the (unix-)command prompt
> on the solaris2.8 platform here. Here's what happened before and after
> loading RODBC
>
>> for (i in 1:10^5) rnorm(10)
> ^C
>> library(RODBC)
>> for (i in 1:10^5) rnorm(10)
> ^C
> bash-3.00$
>
>
> platform       sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> arch           sparc
> os             solaris2.8
> system         sparc, solaris2.8
> status
> major          2
> minor          3.1
> year           2006
> month          06
> day            01
> svn rev        38247
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>
> This version of R was built with gcc-3.3 (too old?) and ODBC_INCLUDE,
> ODBC_LIBS pointing to non-standard locations
> /quant/temp/jagat/usr/local/include, /quant/temp/jagat/usr/local/lib,
> respectively. Will be glad to provide further details.
>
> Any ideas on how to correct this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Jagat K. Sheth
> Prepayment Modeling and Economics
> Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
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>
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> jagat.k.sheth at wellsfargo.com
>
>

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