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I'd like some help with a simple program I want to make. I haven't done a lot of programming, but I know some R and VBA. However, now I would like to make an application for Windows that does the following:

  1. Downloads data from a website.

  2. Calculates some index of the data.

  3. Outputs the indicators as a graphical representation.

  4. Refresh the data x times per day

Other than that it would need to run in the background and not to consume a lot of resources.

I simply would like to know what language would you recommend to use for this idea considering my limited experience.

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Seeing as it for Windows and it should run in the background, you might consider a .Net language and build a windows service (depending exactly how 'runs in the background' and 'outputs indicators as a graphical representation' work together.

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