R help - Dec 2010 - Schedule R to run automatically

Current I have raw data from several projects that is written to a drive on a
daily basis.  I would like to run a certain R syntax against these data sets
(varying somewhat from data set to data set) every day at, say, 7am (with no
human interaction).  Is this possible to set up in windows or unix?

Thanks for any input.



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> Current I have raw data from several projects that is written to a drive on
a
> daily basis.  I would like to run a certain R syntax against these data
sets
> (varying somewhat from data set to data set) every day at, say, 7am (with
no
> human interaction).  Is this possible to set up in windows or unix?
Yes, in both.

In Windows, you can use the "Task Scheduler" (Control Panel -
Administrative Tools
on Windows 7).  Set up the R script you want to run daily, and invoke it
with the R CMD BATCH command.

In Unix, you can use the cron scheduler to do the same.


Steven McKinney


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