if you want to use R itself, you could try --


# check your time zone's abbreviation
Sys.time()

# subtract the time you want the program to run from the current time,
# including your time zone..mine is EDT
Sys.sleep( as.POSIXct( "2013-10-11 06:30:00 EDT" ) - Sys.time() )


-- at the very top of your script and just run the whole thing.  it will
unsleep at the exact time specified.


if you use some other timer to run a command at a certain time, then that
command probably should call Rscript.exe--

"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.2\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\my directory\my
script.R"


or, if R's executables are in your PATH, it could just be

Rscript "C:\my directory\your script.R"




On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Johnson, Alex <Alex.Johnson@theaa.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was wondering if there is there a way you can schedule an R script to
> run automatically through a scheduled task in windows or similar?..
>
> Would R have to be open on the user's PC or could it be closed providing
> we pointed it correctly at R?...
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Alex
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