On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: > This is from R-2.4.0alpha on windows XP, downloaded from CRAN yesterday. > > I did > update.packages(destdir= ..., ask=FALSE,checkBuilt=TRUE) > > which took quite a long time (as.expected). When the internet cafe > had to close, I had to stop the downloading, but the menu item > misc --- stop current computation only stopped the current download, > and then R imeadiaetely continued whit the next in the waitin list, so I had > to kill > R. I would be nice if this could be corrected so it really > stopped all the waiting computastion!
As it does what it says, it cannot be 'corrected' to do something else. I usually find hitting Ctrl-C (or ESC in Rgui) a few times breaks out here. The issue is that update.packages (or more precisely download.packages) has a loop of try() constructs, and those are trapping interrupts. I don't think there is any way to distinguish those from other internal errors. In any case, it is a somewhat delicate question as to what you want: do you want pending on.exit() actions done, for example? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
