[R] Is there a sleep, wait, pause function?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

?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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