Prof Brian Ripley said the following at 08/30/2007 11:00 AM : > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, D. R. Evans wrote: > >> Paul Smith said the following at 08/29/2007 04:32 PM : >> >>> The instance of R running will be immediately killed and then you can >>> start R again. >> But then I would lose all the work. There must be some way to merely >> interrupt the current calculation. Mustn't there? > > Only if it is long-running in R code, when ctrl-C or equivalent (Esc in > Rgui) works. If it is long-running in C or Fortran code, there is not. >
It's inside loess()... so isn't that R code? I can sit hitting ctrl-C all day (well, it seems like it), but the code does not get interrupted :-( > Assuming a Unix-alike, sending SIGUSR1 will save the current workspace and > quit. Even that is a little dangerous as the workspace need not be in a > consistent state. > That's helpful, thank you; at least it means I stand a chance of being able to interrupt the code and recover. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
