On 7/29/2005 3:13 PM, Tae-Hoon Chung wrote: > Hi, All; > > I have a question. In R, what is the best way to make R idle for a while and > try something again later? For example, suppose there is an R job which > accesses a file that may be shared with other active jobs. So when the file > is being accessed by other job, your job will not be able to access the file > and your job will crash because of that. To avoid this, you want your job to > try to access the file repeatedly with some time interval, say every 10 > seconds or something like that. Which is the best way to do this in R?
Sys.sleep(10) should give you a 10 second pause with very little impact on the system. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
