effort {mspath}R Documentation

Get measures of effort to perform a calculation

Description

Generic function for calculators returning estimates of the amount of work involved in the computation. Exact details are likely to change.

Usage

effort(calc)

Arguments

calc The mspathCalculator or subclass for which we want the effort estimate.

Details

Only call this after invoking calculate.

Value

A single number giving the best estimate of likely effort for the active cases. This is useful for gauging the relative times of different subsets; the absolute values have no particular meaning. In particular, they are not in seconds.Subject to change and the exact history of the calculator.

Methods

calc = "mspathCalculator"
standard case

Note

In the future values disaggregated down to individual cases or some intermediate level may be returned.

Author(s)

Ross Boylan

See Also

mspathCalculator, link{estimateWork} for a richer set of information on likely effort.


[Package mspath version 0.9-9 Index]