[Rd] Execute expr with a timeout?

[Philippe Grosjean]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> See (R-devel)
> 
>     o    Experimental setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
>     and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation.

Oh yes! Many thanks.

> Note that this is unfinished, and the interface may well change before 
> release.

OK, I can wait.
Have a nice day,

Philippe

> 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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