How can I interrupt a running code in R with a keyboard command?

Solution 1:

Self Answer (pretty much summary of other's comments and answers):

• In RStudio, Esc works, on windows, Mac, and ubuntu (and I would guess on other linux distributions as well).

• If the process is ran in say ubuntu shell (and this is not R specific), for example using:

  Rscript my_file.R
  

  Ctrl + c kills the process

  Ctrl + z suspends the process

• Within R shell, Ctrl + C kills helps you escape it

Solution 2:

Control-C works, although depending on what the process is doing it might not take right away.

If you're on a unix based system, one thing I do is control-z to go back to the command line prompt and then issue a 'kill' to the process ID.

Solution 3:

Try out Ctrl + z But it will kill the process, not suspend it.