At 6:44 AM +0100 7/30/05, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
This depends on what else is going on. My guess is that you are
running the Aqua GUI, and it is servicing the GUI which is taking
the time, not R itself.
Actually, no, I am not using the Aqua GUI. Not even a framework build:
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
On 7/29/2005 3:13 PM, 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
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
:13 PM
To: RHelp
Subject: [R] Way to make R idle for some time and try
something again later
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
I done something very similar -- have R watch a file, and whenever
new data is added to the file, read the new data from the file. In my
case, new data was arriving once per minute, so I needed to have R
wait about a minute before looking for new data.
On my unix-based system, I found that if
Don MacQueen wrote:
I done something very similar -- have R watch a file, and whenever
new data is added to the file, read the new data from the file. In my
case, new data was arriving once per minute, so I needed to have R
wait about a minute before looking for new data.
On my
This depends on what else is going on. My guess is that you are running
the Aqua GUI, and it is servicing the GUI which is taking the time, not R
itself.
On all of Linux, Solaris and Windows (RGui or Rterm) Sys.sleep() does use
very close to zero resources at the beginning of a session, but
