On Fri, 4 May 2007, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
>>
>>> one thing I haven't been able to figure out from R-exts is how to
>>> interrupt a calculation running inside an embedded R. C code inside R
>>> calls R_CheckUserInterrupt() intermittently to check for interrupts,
>>> but how does my GUI tell R that the user wants it interrupted?
>>
>> Well, the intention is that you send an interrupt, which hardly needs to
>> be in the manual.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that it does. I'm just new to signals and
> things that should be obvious aren't.
>
> Basically kill(2) seems to be the right thing to use, but I wasn't
> sure what the PID needs to be. Turns out sending SIGINT to my GUI from
> a shell interrupts R, so raise(SIGINT) should be enough.
The tricky bit here is figuring out who does the sending. It you have
a separate thread/process for the GUI and R then that is fine (though
may raise other issues). If it is a single thread then you need your
event processing to get an occasional look in to recognise the user
action that triggers an interrupt. The Windows version handles this by
having R_CheckUserInterrupt() do a limited amount of event processing
(you need to be careful in GUI events have R actions associated with
them). I believe the Mac version is similar though it has been a
while since I looked at that. I don't believe the unix version of
R_CheckUserInterrupt() does not provide hooks for installing such
checking (we have talked about this off an on but I don't believe
anything happened -- could be wrong there though).
If Qt allows this one option may be to have events on your nterrupt
widget managed by a small thread that does nothing other than send a
signal to the main thread if the widget is clicked.
Best,
luke
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Luke Tierney
Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences
University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386
Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017
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