On 10 December 2009 at 18:12, Peng Yu wrote: | If I use system.time() to measure the runtime of an expression, I will | not get the result. Is there a way to measure the runtime and get the | result as well?
Use an assignment inside system.time(): R> system.time( m <- max(rnorm(1e6)) ) user system elapsed 0.328 0.008 0.340 R> m [1] 4.993 R> Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.