How to make execution pause, sleep, wait for X seconds in R?

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See help(Sys.sleep).

For example, from ?Sys.sleep

testit <- function(x)
{
    p1 <- proc.time()
    Sys.sleep(x)
    proc.time() - p1 # The cpu usage should be negligible
}
testit(3.7)

Yielding

> testit(3.7)
   user  system elapsed 
  0.000   0.000   3.704

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