I dont know whether this will help you because even I am also pretty new to R but have some experience in web development. I would recommend you to read about "cron jobs" . cron jobs automate your request and execute according to your execution parameters (1 minute, 3.5 days etc) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Automatically-updating-a-WordPress-blog-from-R-tp4710914p4710919.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.