Message-ID: <42EE2B0D.9060200@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-08-01T14:00:45Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Most accurate timing?
In-Reply-To: <17134.7939.686794.549905@stat.math.ethz.ch>
On 8/1/2005 9:09 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>>>>> on Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:48:39 -0400 writes:
>
> Duncan> For a graphics display, I'd like a high resolution
> Duncan> timer, something like Sys.time(), but it is only
> Duncan> accurate to a second. Is there a clock in R that
> Duncan> gives a finer value?
>
> Why can't use proc.time() ?
>
> It's help file says
>
> The resolution of the times will be system-specific; it is
> common for them to be recorded to of the order of 1/100
> second, and elapsed time is rounded to the nearest 1/100.
>
proc.time()[3] is what I want; I had forgotten about it.
Duncan Murdoch