R help - Aug 2012 - total CPU time in Matlab - what is the equivalent in R?

I am trying to compare the speed of my R code with that reported by the
authors of a reference paper who used Matlab. The authors of the paper
state "Total CPU time for the algorithm was 10 s for the ...on a modest
mobile 2.2 GHz Pentium processor running MATLAB v.6".

I am using proc.time (similar to the example shown in ?proc.time) to
determine the speed of my R code. Could someone please tell me whether
"user" time or "system" time is the equivalent of total CPU
time reported
by Matlab.

Thanks
GG

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http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/faq/timing_code.htm

http://r.research.att.com/benchmarks/
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Gopi Goteti <gopi.goteti at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to compare the speed of my R code with that reported by the
>authors of a reference paper who used Matlab. The authors of the paper
>state "Total CPU time for the algorithm was 10 s for the ...on a modest
>mobile 2.2 GHz Pentium processor running MATLAB v.6".
>
>I am using proc.time (similar to the example shown in ?proc.time) to
>determine the speed of my R code. Could someone please tell me whether
>"user" time or "system" time is the equivalent of total
CPU time
>reported
>by Matlab.
>
>Thanks
>GG
>
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