Stopwatch function in R

Question

Is there an R timer or stopwatch function similar to MATLAB\'s tic/toc?

Answer 1

There is a relatively new package tictoc that replicates the features exactly as you would use them in Matlab.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tictoc/index.html

## Basic use case
tic()
print("Do something...")
Sys.sleep(1)
toc()
# 1.034 sec elapsed