[R] Interrupt handling

[Arne Kovac]

Hi everyone,

I recently installed R 1.8.1 on some of our machines and noted quickly
that the handling of interrupts has changed since version 1.8.0. Are there
any plans to reintroduce the old behaviour as a feature when compiling R
or even better as a command line option? The problem is that we are
extensively calling C functions from R which take quite a large time to
finish. With the new version we had to kill the R process quite often and
at the end we sadly decided to reinstall version 1.7.1 on all of our
computers.

Sorry about my complaints, apart from this particular problem we are very
grateful for all the people developing this fantastic software.

Cheers, Arne