The first two numbers will not add up to the third. The third is the elapsed time (wall clock) and the first two are CPU time; even though they have what appears to be the same units (seconds), they can not really be compared. If, for example, was script was taking input from the console, you will get something like this:
> system.time({ + x <- scan("") + }) 1: 12345 2: Read 1 item user system elapsed 0.00 0.06 7.34 > Here it took 7 seconds for me to enter the data, on only 0.06 seconds of CPU (all system time -- probably the 'read' function). The differences in your numbers were the CPU is larger than the elapsed might be due to the resolution of the time since it was a very short time, or if you are running an a multiprocessor, and the application can run multithreaded, you will see the same thing happen -- e.g., if you have 2 CPU and the application could multithread and it was CPU bound, then in 10 seconds of elapsed time you might see 20 seconds of CPU time being used. HTH On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Fernando Saldanha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought system.time() would return three numbers, the first two > adding up to the third one. However, this does not hold in my system > running Windows Vista Home Premium, with an Intel Core 2 Duo > processor. For example, using the code in the help for system.time() > (with one zero added), I got: > > > system.time(for(i in 1:100) mad(runif(10000))) > user system elapsed > 0.27 0.00 0.25 > > Is this a problem with my system clock or am I missing something? > > Thanks. > > FS > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.