[R] interrupting the sourcing of a file

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Claudia Tebaldi wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm running lm()/leaps() kind of computations within a loop, and I
> submitted the entire thing by sourcing a file of R code in interactive
> mode.
> I'd like to interrupt the evaluation of this (it's taking way too long)
> but I am not able to.
> I'm running R-1.3.0 from an emacs window (ESS-5.0) and I'm on a linux box,
> (Debian). I tried Control-c Control-c (nothing happens), or Control-g
> (Quit appears in the minibuffer window, but with no other consequences
> for the R process).
>
> I could kill the emacs job, but of course this would cause all the
> computations done in this session to be lost. I'd be happy to
> prevent that from happening...
>

You could try sending SIGINT to the R process with the kill command. That
is, find the process id (pid) of the R process and do
  kill -INT pid
from the shell.

It works for me, but so does C-c C-c.

	-thomas

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