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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