From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Wed Jun 21 17:44:26 2000
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:44:26 -0400
Subject: [Rd] OS calls
References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10006211606030.20536-100000@auk.stats>
Message-ID: <3950F0EA.413B6DF3@bank-banque-canada.ca>

P.S.
>> sleep <- function(n) {system.call(paste("sleep ", n))} # pause for n seconds

>That's on my TODO list (but allowing sub-sec accuracy). KH suggested that
>we hide names like that behind a .Sys call (but then he introduced getwd).
>There is already at least one object called sleep (a dataset) in an R
>package.

Changing these names is fine with me.

Paul

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[Rd] OS calls
Paul Gilbert