timeout {itertools} | R Documentation |
Create an iterator that iterates over another iterator for a specified period of time, and then stops. This can be useful when you want to search for something, or run a test for awhile, and then stop.
timeout(iterable, time)
iterable |
Iterable to iterate over. |
time |
The time interval to iterate for, in seconds. |
# See how high we can count in a tenth of a second
length(as.list(timeout(icount(), 0.1)))