R: MATLAB timer functions

tic,toc {pracma} | R Documentation

## MATLAB timer functions

### Description

Provides stopwatch timer. Function `tic` starts the timer and `toc` updates the elapsed time since the timer was started.

### Usage

    tic(gcFirst=FALSE)
    toc(echo=TRUE)

### Arguments

`gcFirst` | logical scalar. If `TRUE`, perform garbage collection prior to starting stopwatch
`echo` | logical scalar. If `TRUE`, print elapsed time to screen

### Details

Provides analog to `system.time`. Function `toc` can be invoked multiple times in a row.

### Value

`toc` invisibly returns the elapsed time as a named scalar (vector).

### Author(s)

P. Roebuck proebuck@mdanderson.org

### Examples

    tic()
    for(i in 1:100) mad(runif(1000))	# kill time
    toc()

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