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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com "Døden skal tape!" --- Nordahl Grieg ______________________________________________ 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.