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

Question

Can anyone tell how can I interrupt a running script in R?

Let\'s say I have an infinite loop or some other problem, and I want to stop the script from running. Is

Answer 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