[R] does R provides a wait or pause function?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Marc Mamin wrote:

> I'd like to insert a "wait" function in my code.
> 
> The reason is that I output timestamped files and I want to ensure that
> at least 1 second separes 2 files to avoid overwriting the previous
> file.

?Sys.sleep (The Unix equivalent command and system call are both called
`sleep'.)

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