Thank you for the elaborate response. I am going to look into the quartz code.
> On top of my head I can't think of a built-in solution in R at this point
> (even though it could be argued that R might install a handler itself when
> the limit is set ...).
Yes, I think this would greatly enhanc
Jeroen,
On May 16, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> I would like to use setTimeLimit to abort operations that are stuck
> waiting (idle) after n seconds. Below a toy example in which Sys.sleep
> is a placeholder call that is idle:
>
> testlimit <- function(){
> setTimeLimit(elapsed=3, tra
