[R] System.time

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 02:18:58 CET 2009


It depends on the granularity that the operating system is recording
that time; on some systems the minimum might be 0.01 seconds.  If it
is that short, why worry about it.  There is nothing unusual about the
result.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, John Kerpel <john.kerpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks!
> Does anyone know why I might see something like this after running
> system.time?
>
> system.time(svd(Mean_svd_data))
>   user  system elapsed
>      0       0       0
>
> The data set is tiny and the function returns results instantly, but
> shouldn't it still give me a time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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