Thank you Bill, Peter and Barry.
2010/5/17 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > > > Try > > system.time(y <- f(x)) > > > > and see ?"=". > > > > -Peter Ehlers > > Ah ha. That explains the curly brackets I saw in a posting with > system.time on stack overflow just now: > > system.time({y=f(x)}) > > works as expected since the {} pair make a new code block. Also you > can then time more than one statement: > > system.time({y=f(x);z=g(y)}) > > - gives the total time for f(x) and g(y). > > Barry > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.