Is there a sleep, wait, pause function?
?Sys.sleep ...
help.search("sleep")
Help files with alias or title matching `sleep', type 'help(FOO, package = PKG)' to inspect entry 'FOO(PKG) TITLE': sleep(base) Students' Sleep Data sweep(base) Sweep out Array Summaries Sys.sleep(base) Suspend Execution for a Time Interval
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Is there a (cross-platform) sleep/pause/wait function in [R]? I want to poll a file once in a while to see if and external process is ready. Between each poll [R] should consume as little CPU as possible.
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