Create a timeout iterator — i

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.

Usage

i_timeout(iterable, time, ...)

Arguments

iterable: Iterable to iterate over.
time: The time interval to iterate for, in seconds.
...: passed along to iteror(iterable, ...)

Value

an iteror yielding values from iterable so long as time is in the future

Details

Originally from the itertools package.

Examples


# See how high we can count in a tenth of a second
length(as.list(i_timeout(icount(), 0.1)))
#> [1] 13449