Storing tic toc values in R

Use the built-in system.time function:

tm1 <- system.time(
{
  #your code here
})

or, alternatively the benchmark function from rbenchmark package:

tm2 <- benchmark(
{
  #your code here
}, replications=1)

More similar to tic and toc and sometimes handier e.g. for status messages in loops:

start <- Sys.time ()
do.something ()
Sys.time () - start

Or you can do as it is described in the 'tictoc' package.

tic("timer")
1+1
toc(log = TRUE, quiet = TRUE)
log.txt <- tic.log(format = TRUE)
tic.clearlog()

your output is then stored in log.txt. You can unlist(log.txt) and analyse it as a string if you only want the time in seconds.

Cheers,

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