alarmc {fame} | R Documentation |
On Unix, this is a simple wrapper around the POSIX alarm()
system call. On Windows, no such system call is available, so this
function does nothing. It is here only to stop R CMD check
from complaining about it not being here.
alarmc(seconds = 0)
seconds |
ignored |
Microsoft, in it's infinite wisdom, does not provide the
alarm()
system call in its C libraries. Instead, they expect
you to use the SetTimer
function to do this kind of stuff, but
SetTimer is not available to a console-mode application. I do wonder
how they get away with claiming POSIX compatibility.
Jeff Hallman