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Rorschach
Rorschach

Reputation: 32426

How to kill shiny app in ESS without killing R process

Whenever I run a shiny app from ESS, it works, but I can't get the prompt back without killing the whole R session (like clicking the "Stop" button in RStudio). The normal Ctrl-C Cntrl-C, or Cntl-g don't work. So, I have to resort to Cntrl-x k. How do I kill the shiny process without killing R?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1373

Answers (2)

Jingyu Bao
Jingyu Bao

Reputation: 401

you could use

C-c C-c

in iESS to quit the shiny app.

Upvotes: 1

Rorschach
Rorschach

Reputation: 32426

Well, I finally found out the reason. I had the option

(setq comint-prompt-read-only t)

set somewhere in my init files. Apparently, when this option is set it becomes impossible (well, beyond me anyway) to send a kill signal to the R process. I don't understand what is happening though. If I run a server directly from httpuv I can kill it even with the option set, but not when running an app through shiny.

Upvotes: 3

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