wait_till: Planned sleep times

In schliebs/parleR: R Interface/Wrapper This is in Title Case

Description

Pause the execution of a script either until a certain time is reached, or until a specified amount of time has passed.

Usage

wait_till(from = NULL, resume = NULL, seconds = NULL)

Arguments

from	A datetime object, when the beginning of the sleep interval.
resume	A datetime object, representing when the script shall resume.
seconds	An integer, representing the amount of seconds to wait.

Details

Takes either resume OR a combination of from and seconds.

Examples

# Continue script after 20:30:34 on November 14th 2020

continue_at <- lubridate::as_datetime("2020-11-14 20:30:34")
wait_till(resume = continue_at, seconds = 12)

# Continue script 12 seconds after the last call was made

last_timestamp <- lubridate::now()
wait_till(from = last_timestamp, seconds = 12)

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