signal handling

Is ther[sic] a signal handling model in R? similar to
Perl's %SIG hash. I want to do fast clean up in my R
code before exit when a kill signal is issued.

You may find on.exit() somewhat useful for cleanup
but signals are not propogated to your code by the
R environment.

?Signals (on Unix-based platforms) mentions that SIGUSR2
will bypass the above; no idea about Windows.

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SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

Is ther a signal handling model in R? similar to Perl's %SIG hash.
I want to do fast clean up in my R code before exit when a kill signal
is issued.

I don't know Perl's %SIG hash.  However, there are several things you 
can do:  the on.exit() function lets a function do cleanup, and there 
are various hooks available (see ?setHook), and finalizers (see 
?reg.finalizer) for some kinds of objects.

Duncan Murdoch

I'm not sure about perl's signals, but Unix signals can be passed with
     q("yes/no", status=whatever)
See ?q.  This is pretty useful for passing signal to make, for example.

Paul

Is ther a signal handling model in R? similar to Perl's %SIG hash.
I want to do fast clean up in my R code before exit when a kill signal
is issued.

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Omar Lakkis wrote:

Is ther a signal handling model in R? similar to Perl's
%SIG hash. I want to do fast clean up in my R code before
exit when a kill signal is issued.

I'm not sure about perl's signals, but Unix signals can be
passed with
     q("yes/no", status=whatever)
See ?q.  This is pretty useful for passing signal to make,
for example.

That's a return code though, not a signal.

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SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)