R devel - Jun 2008 - Execute expr with a timeout?

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

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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