[R] Stopping the process after a certain time

[Andrew Robinson]

Thomas,

that's very interesting - thanks!  That will be helpful.

Andrew

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
> > Greetings R-community,
> >
> > I'm running simulations within R that I wrote in C.  The simulations
> > require fitting that occasionally fails to finish.  I was wondering if
> > there is any kind of tool for process control in R, such that after e.g.
> > 15 minutes I could kill the process, record the state for post-hoc
> > analysis, and move to the next simulation?
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD and could almost surely do something in Perl but I'd
> > rather stay inside R if possible.
> >
>
> As one component of this, if you send an R process SIGUSR1 it will quit
> and save .RData (approximately the equivalent of CTRL-C, q("yes")).
>
>
> 	-thomas
>
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