tic: Stopwatch to measure timings in R

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Stopwatch to measure timings in R

Description

Start a stopwatch.

Stop a stopwatch.

Usage

tic(id = 1, start = proc.time()["elapsed"], quiet = TRUE)

toc(
  id = 1,
  msg = "Elapsed time:",
  type = "units",
  signif = 3,
  quiet = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

id	Define ID if multiple tic & toc are being used.
start	Start time. Now is default.
quiet	Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, informative messages will be shown.
msg	Character. Custom message shown
type	Character. Output format for time list element. Choose any of: units, clock, seconds.
signif	Integer. Significant digits.
...	Additional parameters.

Value

Invisible list. Contains tic (start time), toc (stop time), elapsed time and message printed.

toc returns an (invisible) list containing the time-stamps tic and toc, time in seconds and the message msg.

See Also

Other Tools: autoline(), bind_files(), bring_api(), chr2num(), db_download(), db_upload(), dont_sleep(), export_plot(), export_results(), files_functions(), font_exists(), formatColoured(), formatHTML(), glued(), grepm(), h2o_selectmodel(), haveInternet(), image_metadata(), importxlsx(), ip_data(), json2vector(), list_cats(), listfiles(), mail_send(), markdown2df(), move_files(), msplit(), myip(), quiet(), read.file(), statusbar(), try_require(), updateLares(), warnifnot(), what_size()

Examples

# Basic use (global stopwatch)
tic()
Sys.sleep(0.1)
toc()

# Multiple tic tocs
tic(id = "two", quiet = FALSE)
Sys.sleep(0.2)
toc(id = "two")

# Global is still working (id = 1)
toc(msg = "The function finished its work in")

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