Cron job in R shiny - shiny task schedule in shinyapps io

问题

I am planing on getting stock data from yahoo finance at the end of each business day (using quantmod). this data is then used to update my shiny app. Now I have to do this manually, I update my csv file which I than upload to shinyapps.io each day. This csv is used for the app.

Is there a way to fully automate this in shiny/shinyapps.io ?

Now I know that this has been asked here before, at least in a similar setting. However there has not been a helpful answer provided to setting up a cron job in shiny and shinyapps io. Packages like littler an Rscript have been mentioned, but they seem to be outdated since I can not even get them for my latest R version.

Any hint on how to do this would be much appreciated

回答1:

You can look for Rstudio's new product: R Studio Connect, it provides scheduling feature.

https://www.rstudio.com/products/connect/

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40690132/cron-job-in-r-shiny-shiny-task-schedule-in-shinyapps-io