[R] Question about mesurating time

[Prof Brian Ripley]

help.search("time")

gives

proc.time(base)         Running Time of R
system.time(base)       CPU Time Used

both of which could be used.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL wrote:

> Is there any function to mesurate the duration of a procedure (like tic
> and toc in matlab) ?
> 
> Tic
> Source("procedure.R")
> Toc
> 
> (toc is the duration between the execution of tic and the execution of
> toc)

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