Hi Simon, When this happens, I can't access the Stop button and Esc does not respond because of the spinning ball (or maybe not because, but you know what I mean, I hope...). I didn't know about the killall command, so I'll try that the next time I run into this. Thanks for the suggestion.
best, Ken Simon Urbanek wrote: > Ken, > > On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:12 AM, ken knoblauch wrote: > >> If it is not too difficult, I would like to request that it be made >> easier to interrupt the package installer if, for example, the >> local mirror is down. I find that if my local mirror is down, that >> when I try to look for packages, I get the spinning beach ball. I >> haven't waited long enough to see if it stops with an error, but >> I've waited several minutes which I think is a reasonable wait. >> The only way I've come up with for getting back control is by force >> quitting R. If there are less drastic ways, I'd like to learn >> them, but barring that it would be nice to have better control of >> this. > > Have you tried pressing the Stop button in R (resp. pressing <Esc> in > the console)? If that doesn't help, you can always issue > killall -INT R > in the Terminal which will stop this without quitting R. Currently, I > know of no way around this, because R is single-threaded, so it's > stuck in the connect call while the system waits for the host to > respond, so it cannot even process keyboard or mouse events. If the > host is invalid or your system already detected that the host is > down, then there is no timeout and this is then no issue. If anyone > can think of a solution for this, let me know... > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- Ken Knoblauch Inserm U846 Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau Département Neurosciences Intégratives 18 avenue du Doyen Lépine 69500 Bron France tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10 http://www.pizzerialesgemeaux.com/u846/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
