[R] calling a function with new inputs every 1 minute

schuster mail at friedrich-schuster.de
Sun Jun 13 09:02:40 CEST 2010


How about  
Sys.sleep(60)
in a loop from 1 to 500?

?Sys.sleep 

On Saturday 12 June 2010 08:45:32 pm KstuS wrote:
> I have inputs to a function which are changing all the time - I pull these
> values from the internet.  I then apply a function to the values.  What I'd
> like to do is automate the process so it runs every one minute and adds the
> output of the function as a new element of a vector.  Pseudo code:
> 
> at Start time:
> input1_t0, input2_t0, input3_t0
> function(input1_t0, input2_t0, input3_t0)
> function_result_0
> 
> at Time T2 (say one minute later)
> input1_t1, input2_t1, input3_t1
> function(input1_t1, input2_t1, input3_t1
> function_result_1
> ...
> 
> end_result <- c(function_result_0, function_result_1, function_result_2,
> ..., n)
> 
> Ideally I'd want to do this every 1 minute for the next 500 minutes.
> 

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