Alaios: Generally I would think you would look at the elapsed field (at least I do): consider the example you ran to give that data. Did it take about half a second or a minute?
Gabor showed this example once to illustrate the difference: system.time(Sys.sleep(20)) Michael PS -- If you really want to dig into this, try this set of tools: https://code.google.com/p/rbenchmark/ On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> So I just need to get the >> >> user system elapsed >> 0.460 0.048 67.366 >> >> >> user value and convert the seconds to days and then to hours ? Right? >> >> What about this elapsed field? > > It's all in seconds. Convert whatever fields you want. > > Josh > >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> >> >> Cc: "R-help@r-project.org" <R-help@r-project.org> >> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 1:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [R] How much time a process need? >> >> >> >> On 07.11.2011 11:09, Alaios wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> I have finished a large function that takes around 1 day to finish. >>> I was using system.time(callmyfunction()) to measure how much time it >>> needed to finish, my problem is that I do not know how to interpret their >>> numbers. >>> I was looking to convert these results to something more readably like. >>> "This function took 1 Day 2 hours and 35 minutes to complete." >>> >>> How I can convert the system.time output to something like that? >> >> >> system.time() responds in seconds, hence you can apply simple arithmetic >> to get days, hours and minutes. >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >>> >>> B.R >>> Alex >>> >>> [[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. >> [[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. >> >> > > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group > University of California, Los Angeles > https://joshuawiley.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
