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How do I temporarily stop an execution?

2 messages · tomsv193@student.liu.se, Brian Ripley

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Hi! 

A very basic question, but me and the manual are not friends yet...
How do I temporarily stop an execution - that is: stop it until I press 
a certain key ?

/Tomas Svensson

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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 tomsv193 at student.liu.se wrote:

            
(I would cause that `suspend' or `pause' execution.)

That's functionality of your OS/shell, not of R.  Since you haven't told
us your OS ...

On Unix/Linux ^Z will probably work (restart with fg).

On Windows there is no way: it is hard enough to stop rather than pause.

On a classic Mac I think you can't even stop permanently in 1.2.3,
but will be able to in 1.3.0.


One day when (if) R has execution threads it may be able to suspend
them individually.