Re: [R] Event handling in R

Hi. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:20 AM, beetonn wrote: > Thanks, Henrik! That's given me some food for thought, and evalWithTimeout > certainly seems to be a nicer way of doing this than setTimeLimit. > > I should probably explain a little more clearly: I want to stop > getGraphicsEvent() without

Re: [R] Event handling in R

Thanks, Henrik! That's given me some food for thought, and evalWithTimeout certainly seems to be a nicer way of doing this than setTimeLimit. I should probably explain a little more clearly: I want to stop getGraphicsEvent() without stopping the program flow (assume we're running the code fro

Re: [R] Event handling in R

...because you're catching the timeout error with try() so it has not effect, and hence the while(TRUE) {} loop keeps running. Without knowing anything about graphics event handlers per se, here's an alternative to catch the timeout event: library("R.utils"); plot(0, 0); eventEnv <- getGraphicsE

[R] Event handling in R

Dear R-helpers, I've just started playing with getGraphicsEvent() in R, and was wondering if there is a simple way to stop this function waiting for input after a pre-defined time, instead of relying either on a non-NULL value from one of the event handlers or for a user-interrupt for it to ha