R help - Oct 2002 - Interrupt calc/buffer output of R under Windows

Hi all,

I want maximum control of R, including calculation / buffer output
interruption. With Rgui, pressing ESC interrupt both calculation and buffer
output. However, with Rterm, ctrl-c works only in calculation, but does not
interrupt buffer output:

with:

i <- 1
while (i > 0) i <- i + 1

which runs an infinite loop, pressing ctrl-c interrupt it. OK. But:

rnorm(1000000)

is not interrupted before the 1,000,000 numbers are buffered to the console.
I only can pausi it temporarily by pression break, but I do not come back to
the prompt and buffer output is continued when I "unpause" it.

Any hint on how to stop buffer output in RTerm?

By the way, is it something different in infer mode (Rterm --ess)? What are
the major differences between normal and infer mode?

Thank you.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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