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Catching Ctrl-C/Esc at R-level

2 messages · Hadley Wickham, Henrik Bengtsson

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Hi all,

Is it possible to catch when the user presses Ctrl+C/Esc and deal with
it at the R level?

Hadley
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Yes, you catch user interrupts (Ctrl-C) with tryCatch(...,
interrupt=function(cond) { ...}), cf.

http://www1.maths.lth.se/help/R/ExceptionHandlingInR/

/Henrik
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote: