[R] How to make R automatic?

[Nikhil Kaza]

?difftime
?file.info
file.info(filename)$mtime
Sys.sleep(20)


Nikhil Kaza
Asst. Professor,
City and Regional Planning
University of North Carolina

nikhil.list at gmail.com



On Jun 1, 2010, at 10:07 AM, zhangted001 wrote:

>
> Hello, I have a question about how R can run automatically.  Here is  
> the
> story:
>
> A file called "data.csv" will be generated every couple of minutes  
> in a
> folder (overwrite itself). What I want R to do is:
>
> 1) scan the folder to find the file.
> 2) if the file is a newly generated file, process the file
> 3) output some file identifier on the screen, such as the time when  
> the file
> was generated.
> 4) pause for 20 seconds (doesnt need to be precise) and repeat 1)
>
> Idealy, I would like R to do this everyday from 9:00am to 6:00pm.
>
> What I got so far is: I can use list.files() and file.info to get 1)  
> and 2).
> For 4), I can write some trivial loop to kill some time, but I would  
> like to
> be more accurate tham that, considering different PC running the  
> loop.  I
> have no idea about 3).
>
> Any suggestion/better solution?
>
> Thank you very much!!
>
> Best regards,
> Ted
>
>
>
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