On 7/20/2005 7:25 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Is there an R function to kill a process? I found one in package > fork but it is specific to UNIX and I want something that also > works on Windows. The XP console command, taskkill, > will do it so I can easily get the effect but it won't work > on other Windows systems, even 2000 and NT. I found a free utility > pskill.exe by googling around that does work across 2000/NT/XP > but was still wondering about something more general in R.
There's no such thing in base R, as far as I know. Killing a process is complicated, and I think the procedure is quite different in Unix and Windows. You want to give the process a chance at a clean shutdown if possible. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
