Get current time in milliseconds
r
Solution
`Sys.time` does not return a "formatted time". It returns a `POSIXct` classed object, which is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. Of course, when you print that object, it returns a formatted time. But how something prints is not what it is.
To get the current time in milliseconds, you just need to convert the output of `Sys.time` to numeric, and multiply by 1000.
R> print(as.numeric(Sys.time())*1000, digits=15)
[1] 1476538955719.77
Depending on the API call you want to make, you might need to remove the fractional milliseconds.
Problem
I am trying to do an API call which requires a time in milliseconds. I am pretty new in R and been Googling for hours to achieve something like what In Java would be: ``` System.currentTimeMillis(); ``` Only thing i see is stuff like `Sys.Date()` and `Sys.time` which returns a formatted date instead of time in millis. I hope someone can give me a oneliner which solves my problem.