[R] setSessionLimit

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 15:18:33 CET 2018


On 19/01/2018 7:49 AM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The doc/NEWS.2 file mentions a setSessionLimit function, added with
> version 2.8.0
> 
>       o   setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
>           and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation, and
>           setSessionLimit() to set limits for the rest of the session.
> 
> However, I no longer see this function in recent versions of R, and
> there is no mention of its removal in the NEWS nor in the svn log. So
> I'm curious to learn why it was removed...does anyone recall?


That looks like a typo.  If you read the ?setTimeLimit help page, you'll 
see that it also documents setSessionTimeLimit.

Duncan Murdoch



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