Suppose I have an Rscript which will be launched automatically via a cron job. The script will, on some set schedule, open a websocket and write some data locally over a period of hours.
Two questions:
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Is there a way --AFTER the script has begun-- to inspect the objects created by that script via Rstudio?
Eg, the script starts at 7am, I arrive at my desk at 9am, and I want to see some in-memory object that the script has created: Presumably the objects live somewhere in an R-created environment. Are there things I can do --maybe contemplated in the script up front-- to let myself get to those objects? -
What's the best way to terminate the script at a set time of day: some self polling feature within the script itself, or should it be killed as a process, again from some Cron-like helper?
Any opinionated guidance would be really appreciated.
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