How to wait for a keypress in R?

As someone already wrote in a comment, you don’t have to use the cat before readline(). Simply write: readline(prompt=”Press [enter] to continue”) If you don’t want to assign it to a variable and don’t want a return printed in the console, wrap the readline() in an invisible(): invisible(readline(prompt=”Press [enter] to continue”))

Wait for a process to finish

To wait for any process to finish Linux (doesn’t work on Alpine, where ash doesn’t support tail –pid): tail –pid=$pid -f /dev/null Darwin (requires that $pid has open files): lsof -p $pid +r 1 &>/dev/null With timeout (seconds) Linux: timeout $timeout tail –pid=$pid -f /dev/null Darwin (requires that $pid has open files): lsof -p $pid … Read more

How to tell PowerShell to wait for each command to end before starting the next?

Normally, for internal commands PowerShell does wait before starting the next command. One exception to this rule is external Windows subsystem based EXE. The first trick is to pipeline to Out-Null like so: Notepad.exe | Out-Null PowerShell will wait until the Notepad.exe process has been exited before continuing. That is nifty but kind of subtle … Read more

Why must wait() always be in synchronized block

What is the potential damage if it was possible to invoke wait() outside a synchronized block, retaining it’s semantics – suspending the caller thread? Let’s illustrate what issues we would run into if wait() could be called outside of a synchronized block with a concrete example. Suppose we were to implement a blocking queue (I … Read more

JavaScript sleep/wait before continuing [duplicate]

JS does not have a sleep function, it has setTimeout() or setInterval() functions. If you can move the code that you need to run after the pause into the setTimeout() callback, you can do something like this: //code before the pause setTimeout(function(){ //do what you need here }, 2000); see example here : http://jsfiddle.net/9LZQp/ This … Read more

How do I make a delay in Java?

If you want to pause then use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit: TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1); To sleep for one second or TimeUnit.MINUTES.sleep(1); To sleep for a minute. As this is a loop, this presents an inherent problem – drift. Every time you run code and then sleep you will be drifting a little bit from running, say, every second. If this … Read more

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