So I just need to get the 

   user  system elapsed 
  0.460   0.048  67.366 


user value and convert the seconds to days and then to hours ? Right?

What about this elapsed field?



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From: Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

Cc: "R-help@r-project.org" <R-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [R] How much time a process need?



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."
>
> How I can convert the system.time output to something like that?


system.time() responds in seconds, hence you can apply simple arithmetic 
to get days, hours and minutes.

Uwe Ligges



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