Hi everyone, Just a quick question/problem I encountered, wanted to make sure this is known behavior. Running `sort` on a long vector can take quite a bit of time, and I found today that there don’t seem to be any calls to `R_CheckUserInterrupt()` during execution. Calling something like `sort((2^31):1)` takes good bit of time to run on my machine and is uninterruptable without force-terminating the entire R session.
There doesn’t seem to be any mention in the help files that this method is uninterruptable. All the methods called from `sortVector` in `src/main/sort.c` lack checks for user interrupts as well. My main question is, is this known behavior? Is it worth including a warning in the help file? I don’t doubt that including a bunch of `R_CheckUserInterrupt()` calls would really hurt performance, but it may be possible to add an occasional call if `sort` is called on a long vector. This may not even be a problem that affects people, which is my main reason for inquiring. -Aidan ----------------------- Aidan Lakshman (he/him) www.AHL27.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
