Thank you kindly Jim, that works great for me! For anyone who does a search on this topic and finds this post, the two web pages I used to further investigate Jim's suggestion were the following (i did not know what a batch file was, or that you could use windows task scheduler on them):
task scheduler - http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm batch files - http://www.statmethods.net/interface/batch.html I was able to write the batch file as a text document, and then after saving it, changed the extension for '.txt' to '.bat' Cheers, Tony Breyal On 13 Oct, 19:35, "jim holtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use the task scheduler in Windows and have a batch files executed. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:44 AM, TonyBreyal > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear R-Help, > > > Is it possible to set R up to run a particular script at specific > > times of the day? trivial example: If the time is now 8:59:55am and I > > wish to run a function at 9am, I do the following: > > > my.function <- function(x) { > > p1 <- proc.time() > > Sys.sleep(x) > > print('Hello R-Help!') > > proc.time() - p1 > > } > > my.function (5) > > > [1] "Hello R-Help!" > > user system elapsed > > 0 0 5 > > > What I would rather do is just put in the time at which I wish R to > > execute at. > > > Hope that made sense, and thanks for any help in advance! > > TonyBreyal > > > ### Windows Vista > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom. > > 1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom. > > 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > > base > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] RCurl_0.9-4 > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.