Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806160928550.14927@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2008-06-16T08:31:41Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Execute expr with a timeout?
In-Reply-To: <48561E8C.7020806@sciviews.org>
See (R-devel)
o Experimental setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation.
Note that this is unfinished, and the interface may well change before
release.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does someone know how to execute an expression in R, limiting the time to
> evaluate it and raising an exception if it takes too long to run? Something
> like:
>
>> with.timeout(expr, timeout = 10)
>
> which stops the evaluation of 'expr' if it is not done after 10 sec?
> Best,
>
> Philippe Grosjean
>
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