R help - Jul 2018 - Stop a loop if it takes long time

Hi,

Let say I am implementing a loop using for() / apply()-family etc.

Now, the calculation-time within a particular loop is not fixed, means,
some loop takes a long time to finish calculation, and next loop perhaps
very quick to finish.

I am exploring if there is any way, to check if the calculation within a
particular loop takes longer time than a pre-fixed threshold and if it does
then kill that loop and proceed to the next.

Is it possible to implement such without adding much overhead with existing
calculation?

Thanks for your feedback

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Depends somewhat on what you are doing in the loop and how much of a performance
hit you are willing to accept. [1]

[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7891073/time-out-an-r-command-via-something-like-try

On July 24, 2018 3:17:41 AM PDT, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at
gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Let say I am implementing a loop using for() / apply()-family etc.
>
>Now, the calculation-time within a particular loop is not fixed, means,
>some loop takes a long time to finish calculation, and next loop
>perhaps
>very quick to finish.
>
>I am exploring if there is any way, to check if the calculation within
>a
>particular loop takes longer time than a pre-fixed threshold and if it
>does
>then kill that loop and proceed to the next.
>
>Is it possible to implement such without adding much overhead with
>existing
>calculation?
>
>Thanks for your feedback
>
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>
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