[R] How much time a process need?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 07.11.2011 14:32, Alaios wrote:
> So I just need to get the
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>     user  system elapsed
>    0.460   0.048  67.366
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> user value and convert the seconds to days and then to hours ? Right?
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> What about this elapsed field?

Yes, the elapsed time in seconds.

Uwe Ligges




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> To: Alaios<alaios at yahoo.com>
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> On 07.11.2011 11:09, Alaios wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I have finished a large function that takes around 1 day to finish.
>> I was using system.time(callmyfunction()) to measure how much time it needed to finish, my problem is that I do not know how to interpret their numbers.
>> I was looking to convert these results to something more readably like.
>> "This function took 1 Day 2 hours and 35 minutes to complete."
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>> How I can convert the system.time output to something like that?
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> system.time() responds in seconds, hence you can apply simple arithmetic
> to get days, hours and minutes.
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> Uwe Ligges
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>> Alex
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