Which operating system are you using ? See help(Sys.sleep), which might be what you want but there may be other ways in determining if a file is being accessed by another program.
Regards, Adai On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 12:13 -0700, Tae-Hoon Chung wrote: > Hi, All; > > I have a question. In R, what is the best way to make R idle for a while and > try something again later? For example, suppose there is an R job which > accesses a file that may be shared with other active jobs. So when the file > is being accessed by other job, your job will not be able to access the file > and your job will crash because of that. To avoid this, you want your job to > try to access the file repeatedly with some time interval, say every 10 > seconds or something like that. Which is the best way to do this in R? > > Thanks in advance, > > Tae-Hoon Chung > > Post-Doctoral Researcher > Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) > 445 N. 5th Street (Suite 530) > Phoenix, AZ 85004 > 1-602-343-8724 (Direct) > 1-480-323-9820 (Mobile) > 1-602-343-8840 (Fax) > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
