Peng Yu wrote:
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 '='.
Thanks to point it out on the list. This is one of the reasons not to use "=" as assignment operator at all: it is confusing.
Best, Uwe Ligges
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