now: now

In sigbertklinke/exams2moodle: Access routines to XML Moodle files and helper routines to simplify generating exercises for Moodle from the 'exams' package

now

Description

Returns a time stamp based on the current time. now calls basically gsub('.', '', sprintf('%.20f', as.numeric(Sys.time())), fixed=TRUE). To ensure that at each call a different time stamp is delivered now may call gsub(...) several times until two different results are delivered. The last one is then returned.

Usage

now(last = 35)

Arguments

last	integer: how many digits should be returned (default: 35)

Value

a character

Examples

now()   # returns all digits
now(3)  # returns only the first three digits

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