aroma.core (version 1.2.0)

processTime: Gets the running time of the R process and its children processes

Description

Gets the running time of the R process and its children processes. This function is a safe wrapper for proc.time(), which might not exist on all platforms. It "determines how much time (in seconds) the currently running Rprocess already consumed". In addition it adds descriptive names of the returned values. For more details, see proc.time().

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
processTime(since=NULL, units=c("seconds", "milliseconds", "minutes", "hours", "days"), fmtstr=NULL, ...)

Arguments

since

An optional numeric vector to be subtracted from the value of proc.time(). This is useful

units

A character string specifying the unit of the returned values.

fmtstr

If given, a format string to convert the times to strings via sprintf().

...

Not used.

Value

• Returns a named numeric vector of length 5. For more details, see proc.time().

See Also

proc.time(). system.time(). gc.time().