statnet.common (version 4.3.0)

forkTimeout: Evaluate an R expression with a hard time limit by forking a process

Description

This function uses

Usage

forkTimeout(expr, timeout, unsupported = c("warning", "error", "message",
  "silent"), onTimeout = NULL)

Arguments

expr

expression to be evaluated.

timeout

number of seconds to wait for the expression to evaluate.

unsupported

a character vector of length 1 specifying how to handle a platform that does not support

onTimeout

Value to be returned on time-out.

Value

Result of evaluating expr if completed, onTimeout otherwise.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
forkTimeout({Sys.sleep(1); TRUE}, 2) # TRUE
forkTimeout({Sys.sleep(1); TRUE}, 0.5) # NULL (except on Windows)
# }