In help("pskill", package = "tools") is says:
Only SIGINT and SIGTERM will be defined on Windows, and pskill will
always use the Windows system call TerminateProcess.
As far as I understand it, TerminateProcess [1] terminates the process
"quite abruptly". Specifically, it is not possible for th
This is the documented behavior since r35262 (2005), from ?format
> If x is a list, the result is a character vector obtained by applying
> format.default(x, ...) to each element of the list
One consequence is that we can't add "nice" printing methods for
list-of-object columns in data.frames:
On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:58:18 -0700
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Is it possible to gracefully interrupt a child R process on MS
> Windows, e.g. a PSOCK cluster node?
Not in the general case (I think, based on the code paths leading to
Rf_onintr() on Windows), but PSOCK cluster nodes are instances of
