On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > 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>
I see. In this case, I'll have to use '<-' rather than '='. ______________________________________________ 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.