[ESS] Remote processes: interrupt R calculations

[A.J. Rossini]

Which tool do you use to connect? M-x one of : shell, eshell, telnet, ssh?

I'd suggest the latter or 2nd (I've made nasty mistakes with #'s 1 and
3 in the last month with S-PLUS).

Hmm... might try some of the other comint signals.

On 10/10/05, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I run R in a shell on a remote machine.
>
> Sometimes I issue a long-running command, for example something that
> would output millions of lines of data, but I'd just like to see a
> few, or I simply made a mistake and need to cancel the operation.
>
> However, sending a signal to the process (like with C-c C-c) will not
> just send a ^C to the R process, but it will kill the whole
> connection, i.e. terminate ssh and R with it, sending my workspace to
> nirvana, so I can start from scratch. Especially when you're dealing
> with big datasets, this is annoying.
>
> How do I interrupt R on a remote machine from within ESS?
>
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