[R] Automating an R function call

[peter dalgaard]

On Aug 12, 2011, at 21:26 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 12/08/2011 2:03 PM, RobertJK wrote:
>> Any way to run an R function every 5 minutes from the R terminal? Searched
>> around but couldn't find any answers. Thanks!!
> 
> Yes, but not in the background:
> 
> repeat {
>  f()
>  Sys.sleep(300)
> }
> 
> If you want it run in the background, get your OS to run R to do it.  (It's possible the tcltk package will give you access to some tcl way to set a background process; I don't know.  Similarly, you could call out to C and start up another thread, etc., but R itself is single-threaded.)
> 

For asynchronuos within-R possibilities check out tkafter in the tcltk package.

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