<sachinthaka.abeywardana <at> allianz.com.au> writes: > Is it possible to write a program such that it downloads a csv from a given > web address? Would be great if this could be done at a particular time > during the day as well. Say 9AM monday-friday.
downloading a csv file is easy: x <- read.csv(url("http://whatever.com/my.csv")) for scheduling this you probably want to use some scheduling tool that works with your OS (in Unix/Linux you would use "cron") and run R in batch mode (R CMD BATCH ...) I suppose you could leave an R job running all the time, having it go to sleep (?Sys.sleep) in between calls -- I don't know if Sys.sleep(24*3600) would reliably put it to sleep for a whole day -- but scheduling through the operating system would certainly be a better way to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.