Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0208231904390.2609-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-08-23T18:07:03Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Is there a sleep, wait, pause function?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208231723490.28281-100000@speed>
?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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