Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@irJERAD
Created February 22, 2017 16:12
Show Gist options
  • Save irJERAD/ab904d5db917f9f7eab5a660b3ae5730 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save irJERAD/ab904d5db917f9f7eab5a660b3ae5730 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Automate your R Script to run on a schedule, Initiate during 1 specific minute a year or once every minute. Great for web scraping and any data collection. Change `com.file.name` to com.YourFilesActualName (without the .sh at the end). Path should be to your shell script. Only need to keep the arguments you use: so once per hour would just requi…
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.file.name</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Path/to/shell/script/rShellScript.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Month</key>
<integer>11</integer>
<key>Day</key>
<integer>03</integer>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>23</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>03</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment