[Rd] read.table: aborting based on a time constraint

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Use file.file()$size to find out how large the file is
and skip files larger than some cutoff.

On Jan 9, 2008 2:01 PM, Derek Stephen Elmerick <delmeric at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello –
>
> I am trying to write code that will read in multiple datasets;
> however, I would like to skip any dataset where the read-in process
> takes longer than some fixed cutoff. A generic version of the function
> is the following:
>
> for(k in  1:number.of.datasets)
> {
>   X[k]=read.table(…)
> }
>
> The issue is that I cannot find a way to embed logic that will abort
> the read-in process of a specific dataset without manual intervention.
> I scanned the help manual and other postings, but no luck based on my
> search. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
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