?Sys.sleep On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Mikkel Grum <mikkel.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way to pause R for a gvien time period, i.e. without the > need for user intervention? I've got a loop that I want to have work > as hard as it can as long as there is data coming in, but when there > is no new data, I would like it to pause before checking again. > Something like in the following construction: > > Set up environment: load libraries, establish database connections, etc. > while (time_is_less_than_x) { > Check for new data in database > if (newdata) { > Analyse data (lengthy calculation) > } else { > pause > } > } > > I'm working on Windows Server 2003, but if there is something that > only works on Linux, that's of interest too. > > I am aware of the ask option in par, pause in the package sm, and > prompt.user in Zelig, but they all require user intervention to start > again. > > Mikkel > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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