The short answer is `no', nothing has changed since 1.8,0. There was a change at 1.8.0, and that was deliberate and described in the NEWS file. You seem rather confused about this!
A slighter longer answer is that this depended on your unnamed OS having such interrupts, so for many R users there was no such facility. Surely the right thing to do is to make your C code interruptible by inserting calls to R_CheckUserInterrupt() so interrupts occur at planned places and work on all platforms. (That's a little harder to do with Fortran code, something I plan to address before 1.9.0.) On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Arne Kovac wrote: > 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help