[R] how to set crontab for updating the repositories?

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Sukhbir,
The recommended rsync commands for mirroring the Bioconductor 
repositories are given at

http://bioconductor.org/download/mirrors/mirror-howto.html


Cheers,
Patrick



Paul Hiemstra wrote:
> Sukhbir Rattan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have downloaded around 60GB package repositories of bioconductor to 
>> use it
>> locally and to set up mirror at my university site.
>>
>> I have installed the mirror with rsync command and able to access also.
>>
>> Now I have to set a cron job for its daily updating from bioconductor
>> website. How should I do it?
>>
>> I know rsync have to be used but I don't know the proper syntax.
>>
>> I request to send proper syntax.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sukhbir Singh Rattan.
>>
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> Hi,
>
> Typing:
>
> crontab -e
>
> Will open the crontab file for the current user, here you can add 
> commands that are to executed at certain times. The crontab will look 
> something like:
>
> # m h  dom mon dow   command
> 0 0 * * * /foo/bar
>
> where the command /foo/bar will be executed every day (dom, mon and 
> dow are a *, meaning 'for all') at 12 pm.
>
> cheers,
> Paul
>
>