hmstimer

hmstimer is an R package to track elapsed clock time using a hms::hms scalar.

hmstimer was originally developed to time Bayesian model runs. It should not be used to estimate how long extremely fast code takes to execute as the package code adds a small time cost.

Create and start a timer with tmr_timer(start = TRUE).

library(hmstimer)

tmr <- tmr_timer(start = TRUE)
Sys.sleep(0.1)
str(tmr)
#>  'hms' num 00:00:00
#>  - attr(*, "units")= chr "secs"
#>  - attr(*, "title")= chr ""
#>  - attr(*, "start")= num 1.74e+09
hms::as_hms(tmr)
#> 00:00:00

Get the elapsed time with tmr_elapsed(). The title is optional.

tmr <- tmr_timer(start = TRUE, title = "my timer")

Sys.sleep(0.1)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.105913

Sys.sleep(0.1)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.215391

Stop the timer with tmr_stop().

tmr <- tmr_stop(tmr)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.224024

Sys.sleep(1)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.224024

Restart the timer with tmr_start().

tmr <- tmr_start(tmr)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.224456
Sys.sleep(0.1)
tmr_elapsed(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.331804

There are several options for printing and formatting including coercing to a hms object.

tmr <- tmr_stop(tmr)
print(tmr)
#> 00:00:00.341066
tmr_print(tmr)
#> [1] "00:00:00.341066 [my timer]"
tmr_format(tmr, digits = 5)
#> [1] "00:00:00.34107 [my timer]"

If running tmr_print() behaves differently.

tmr <- tmr_start(tmr)
tmr_print(tmr)
#> [1] "17:19:17 (+00:00:01 => 17:19:18) [my timer]"

The time for a block of code to complete can be printed using with_timer().

with_timer({
  Sys.sleep(0.1)
  Sys.sleep(0.1)
  1 + 1
})
#> 00:00:00.207
#> [1] 2

Installation

Release

To install the release version from CRAN.

install.packages("hmstimer")

The website for the release version is at https://poissonconsulting.github.io/hmstimer/.

Development

To install the development version from GitHub

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("poissonconsulting/hmstimer")

or from r-universe.

install.packages("hmstimer", repos = c("https://poissonconsulting.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Contribution

Please report any issues.

Pull requests are always welcome.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the hmstimer project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.