Scripts to update the petition information in the Project Petition website database.
reg.R contains code to test out different forecasting regressions with the We The People bulk download data, and save regression results to a file. scrape.R is run nightly on the projpet server, getting new petition data from the WtP API and using the regression results from reg.R to generate signature forecasts for the new petitions. graph.R contains code for creating .png graphs that can be displayed on the website.
Run at 12:05 am every night with the cron command
5 0 * * * /usr/bin/Rscript /network/rit/lab/projpet/will/website_updates/scrape.R