shutdown: Shut Down The Operating System with Command 'shutdown'

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Description

There is a command shutdown in both Windows and Linux, and this function just uses it to shut down a computer.

Usage

shutdown(wait = 0)

Arguments

wait	time to wait before shutting down (in seconds); passed to Sys.sleep

Details

After the time wait has passed, R will execute shutdown -s -t 0 (for Windows) or shutdown -h now to shut down the computer.

Value

The status code of system.

Author(s)

Yihui Xie <http://yihui.name>

References

http://cos.name/en/topic/shut-down-your-windows-with-r

See Also

system, Sys.sleep

Examples

## Not run: 
## when your code is extremely time-consuming, you may need this function
# e.g. you go to sleep, and R is running
# long computation... complex graphics...
# and long long computation... at last,
shutdown()
# the next day you wake up, "thank you, R" :)

## End(Not run)

fun documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:06 p.m.