[R] interrupting R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Markus Loecher wrote:

> Dear fellow R users,
> is there a generic way to gracefully interrupt an R function without
> terminating the entire session ? I am mainly interested in this answer for
> Linux and MacOS.
> I found neither Esc nor Ctrl-C to work; it seems that R does not check for
> signals periodically?

Well, Ctrl-C works for me.  Rather than check for signals, R installs a 
signal handler and gets the OS to do the work.

On Mac OS it is unclear if you mean R or R.app.  R.app has a Stop sign 
icon, amongst other ways.

> Also, an entirely unrelated question: I have been looking unsuccessfully for
> the R sources for the examples given in Simon Wood's book on Generalized
> Additive Models. I had hoped they would be part of the mgcv package but they
> are not.
> Has anyone had any luck with this ?

Why not ask him directly?

> Thanks,
> Markus
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