Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012070741520.10594@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2010-12-07T07:53:22Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Time out for a R Function
In-Reply-To: <4cfd9630.0bb38e0a.7e4a.7dab@mx.google.com>
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Santosh Srinivas wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> I have an R-function that works fine for most part but sometime runs into a
> long loop! (I'm lazy and short on time to debug right now so want to do
> something easy)
> For my purpose, it is ok to make few errors .... is there a way I can put a
> timeout on a function and the r-process needes to move on to the next step?
See the help on setTimeLimit(transient = FALSE) . Unlike other
suggestions, that does not need you to change the code to check the
time.
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