[Rd] Wish List: base::source() + Add Execution Time Argument

[Juan Telleria]

But by statement in the source file, I mean, for knowing during the
execution how much time is taking, without having to wait till the end.

2017-12-21 13:06 GMT+01:00 Iñaki Úcar <i.ucar86 at gmail.com>:

> 2017-12-21 12:46 GMT+01:00 Juan Telleria <jtelleriar at gmail.com>:
> > Dear R Developers,
> >
> > Adding to source() base function a Timer which indicates the execution
> time
> > of the source code would be a very well welcome feature, and in my
> opinion
> > not difficult to implement as an additional funtion argument.
> >
> > The source(timing = TRUE) function shall execute internally the following
> > code for each statement:
> >
> > old <- Sys.time() # get start time at the beginning of source()
> > # source code
> > # print elapsed time
> > new <- Sys.time() - old # calculate difference
> > print(new) # print in nice format
>
> system.time(source(...)) does what you want.
>
> Iñaki
>

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