[Rd] Signal handling / alarm timeouts

2011-04-12 Thread Murray Stokely
What are the ramifications of setting up user signal handling to allow the use of e.g. alarm(2) to send a SIGALRM to the R process at some number of seconds in the future to e.g. interrupt a routine that is taking too long to complete. I can't find any R language support for this (e.g. a timeout

Re: [Rd] Signal handling / alarm timeouts

2011-04-12 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Murray Stokely mur...@stokely.org wrote: What are the ramifications of setting up user signal handling to allow the use of e.g. alarm(2) to send a SIGALRM to the R process at some number of seconds in the future to e.g. interrupt a routine that is taking too