get online data every hour in R

Question

I would like to get the Observatory data every hour they update the forecast.

My one time data extract code is following.

library(RCurl)
web <- getURL         


        

Answer 1

You probably could use Sys.sleep() but it smells like bad code.

Instead, set up a cron job to run your code updating every hour. Then your script is simple, and more robust.