Message-ID: <16445.52285.165869.280806@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2004-02-26T10:36:45Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: system.time(), sys.time() etc
In-Reply-To: <3A822319EB35174CA3714066D590DCD504AF77D4@usrymx25.merck.com>
>>>>> "AndyL" == Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com>
>>>>> on Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:03:36 -0500 writes:
AndyL> Just do
AndyL> system.time <- sys.time
AndyL> and you're good to go in S-PLUS (at least in 6.x).
yes. This is yet another instance of S-Plus following R behind
and doing it incompatibly [with a reason ?]
{the first one I know being sd() vs stdev()}.
The historical names in S and S-PLUS where
unix.time() , then came dos.time()
whereas in R we've used system.time() from the very beginning.
Martin