R help - Jan 2018 - setSessionLimit

Hello

The doc/NEWS.2 file mentions a setSessionLimit function, added with 
version 2.8.0

 ??? o?? setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
 ??????? and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation, and
 ??????? setSessionLimit() to set limits for the rest of the session.

However, I no longer see this function in recent versions of R, and 
there is no mention of its removal in the NEWS nor in the svn log. So 
I'm curious to learn why it was removed...does anyone recall?

Regards

Ben

On 19/01/2018 7:49 AM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The doc/NEWS.2 file mentions a setSessionLimit function, added with
> version 2.8.0
> 
>   ??? o?? setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
>   ??????? and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation, and
>   ??????? setSessionLimit() to set limits for the rest of the session.
> 
> However, I no longer see this function in recent versions of R, and
> there is no mention of its removal in the NEWS nor in the svn log. So
> I'm curious to learn why it was removed...does anyone recall?

That looks like a typo.  If you read the ?setTimeLimit help page, you'll 
see that it also documents setSessionTimeLimit.

Duncan Murdoch