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Message-ID: <x2vg61mvvn.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2002-08-23T15:34:52Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Is there a sleep, wait, pause function?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208231723490.28281-100000@speed>

Henrik Bengtsson <hb at maths.lth.se> writes:

> 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.

Sys.sleep()

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