timeout {fscaret}

timeout

Description

This function limits elapsed time spent on single model development. It uses low-level functions of parallel packege and sets the fork process with time limit. If the result is not returned within set time, it kills fork. Function shouldn't be called from R console. The function is not used under Windows OS. Only Unix-like systems have fork functionality.

Usage

timeout(..., seconds)

Arguments

...

Expression to be time limited

seconds

Number of seconds

Author(s)

Original code by Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu> of OpenCPU package. Modifications by Jakub Szlek and Aleksander Mendyk.