Thank you everyone for your help. I have managed to now figure it out by creating a batch file to run R. I can then schedule this batch file to run.
Not sure if this is the best way of doing it but it seems to work for me. Thank you for the help Alex ________________________________ From: Greg Snow [mailto:538...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2013 18:45 To: Johnson, Alex Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] automation of an R script to run Look at the ?Startup help page in R. It shows a couple of ways to have code run automatically when R starts (and can depend on which folder R starts from). So you could have the windows task scheduler run R and use the above to set the script to run. Also look at ?Rscript for a way to run a script in batch mode, you can schedule a run of Rscript on a specific script file. Within R there is the tclTaskSchedule function in the tcltk2 package. If you leave R running then that function can set some code to run at a given time, or at a regular interval. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Johnson, Alex <alex.john...@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 Alex Johnson Operational Research Analyst The AA 01256 492133 / Ext 622133 Automobile Association Developments Limited. Registered office: Fanum House, Basing View, Basingstoke, RG21 4EA. Registered in England and Wales Number: 01878835 "To our Members we're the 4th Emergency Service" This electronic message contains information from The\ A...{{dropped:24}} ______________________________________________ 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.
