interrupting R

Thank you for the quick reply.
It seems that Ctrl-C interrupts "pure" R functions (i.e. R scripts that do
not call external compiled libraries) but when I run functions that in turn
call external C code (such as gam() in the package mgcv), the Ctrl-C does
not appear to propagate that deeply, if I may use such loose language.

The Stop icon in the R.app on MAC OS is similarly unresponsive when e.g.
gam() is performing some extensive computations.
(I am just using gam() as an example, nothing special about it, I think)

You are right, I should ask the author about the source code, I just did not
want to add more requests to his InBox.

Thanks again,

Markus

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
      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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