gov_wait {governor}

Wait an appropriate amount of time within a for-loop to match the desired interval set in gov

Description

Wait an appropriate amount of time within a for-loop to match the desired interval set in gov

Usage

gov_wait(gov)

Arguments

gov

object created by gov_init()

Value

Logical value. If TRUE then the governor is suggesting that the work for next loop be skipped if the loop interval is to be maintained in the long term.

Examples

# This loop should take approx 1 second
gov <- gov_init(1/30)  # interval = 0.0333 seconds
system.time({
  for (i in 1:30) {
    Sys.sleep(0.01) # Work done in loop
    gov_wait(gov)   # Compensate to keep interval loop time
  }
})