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In Matlab, the function 

pause(x)

Stops execution for x seconds. Is there something similar in Julia?

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    sleep(seconds) Block the current task for a specified number of seconds. The minimum sleep time is 1 millisecond or input of 0.001. Commented Jun 24, 2015 at 18:25
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    Thanks @brauner, sleep does the job. Please post it below so I can accept. Commented Jun 24, 2015 at 18:34
  • of course. Happy to do so. :) Commented Jun 24, 2015 at 18:40

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One method in julia is to use the sleep() function which takes the number of seconds as a parameter. The minimum number of time is 1 millisecond or an input of 0.001.

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Not a serious answer, but I have a note-to-self from julia v0.4 days to use the following to pause execution for t seconds:

f = t -> watch_file(".",t)

Here's the current stable version documentation of watch_file.

I have another similar note suggesting this:

f = t -> (b=time(); while b+t > time() end)

I have no earthly idea why either would be preferred method of pausing program execution vs. sleep(x), perhaps someone could comment.

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I compared accuracy for sleep() and FileWatching.watch_file() based f and it's comparable.
It seems that sleep is non-blocking. So that if you @spawn a function that calls sleep, it will allow other tasks to run once it starts to sleep. your 2nd note will not do that.

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