On 23 March 2011 at 22:39, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
| Is there a way to run a little script (on Ubuntu Manic Meerkat) every hour,
please?
|
| I know that this is more of a LINUX/UNIX question rather than an R question.
Sorry.
You may want to get yourself familiar with a basic Unix book like the
fifteen+ year old copy of Running Linux I have here---looks like it devotes
five very clear pages to this in the chapter 'Essential Administration'.
In short, your system does not care if its R or any other program. You just
schedule an application to run. That is done via cron, so do (as was already
recommended)
man 8 cron
man 5 crontab
and these days you can even scripts into
/etc/cron.daily/
/etc/cron.hourly/
/etc/cron.monthly/
/etc/cron.weekly/
For what it is worth, my /etc/crontab here has
# every few hours, run cranberries
16 * * * * edd cd /home/edd/cranberries && ./cranberries.r
and the comment dates from when I ran that every four or six hours -- now it
runs hourly on the 16th minute to produce what you see at the CRANberries
pages (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/) --- the 16th minute of
every (*) hour, day, month, dayofweek.
With that please don't abuse this R/Debian/Ubuntu list with questions you
should really be able to answer yourself, or get answered on an Ubuntu newbie
list or forum.
Dirk
|
| Thanks,
| Erin
|
|
| Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
| Associate Professor
| Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
| University of Houston - Downtown
| mailto: [email protected]
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