timing: Timing of R expressions.

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timingR Documentation

Timing of R expressions.

Description

Similar to ‘system.time()' but returns a more convenient ’difftime' object.

Usage

timing(expr, gc.first = TRUE)

Arguments

expr

Valid R expression to be timed. If missing, [proc.time()] is used instead.

gc.first

Logical - should a garbage collection be performed immediately before the timing? Default is 'TRUE'.

See Also

[system.time()]

Examples

test <- timing(Sys.sleep(0.5))
test
attr(test, "details")

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