[R] Interrupt R?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/07/2010 2:29 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
>        How can one interrupt the following gracefully:
>
>
> while(TRUE){
>    Sys.sleep(1)
> }
>
>
>        In R2.11.1 under Emacs+ESS, some sequence of ctrl-g, ctrl-c 
> eventually worked for me.  Under Rgui 2.11.1, the only way I've found 
> was to kill R.
>
>
>        Suggestions on something more graceful?
>   

This is an Emacs+ESS bug.  In the Windows GUI or using Rterm, the 
standard methods (ESC or Ctrl-C resp.) work fine.

Duncan Murdoch


>
>        Beyond this, what would you suggest to update a real-time report 
> when new data arrives in a certain directory?  A generalization of the 
> above works, but I'd like something more graceful.
>
>
>        Thanks,
>        Spencer Graves
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] SIM_0.5-0      RCurl_1.4-2    bitops_1.0-4.1 R2HTML_2.1     oce_0.1-80
>
>