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

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.