System Administration

Python’s rich library – a tutorial

The Python rich library is a package for having clearer, styled, and colored output in the terminal. rich works across…

4 years ago

3 ways to do RPA with Python

In this post we'll cover a few packages for doing robotic process automation with Python. Robotic process automation, or RPA,…

4 years ago

How to schedule a Python script on a Mac

In a previous article, we talked about how to run Python from the Windows Task Scheduler. This post will cover…

4 years ago

How to schedule R scripts

Running R with taskscheduleR and cronR In a previous post, we talked about how to run R from the Windows…

4 years ago

How to hide a password in a Python script

Background Python is widely used for web scraping and APIs, dealing with databases, sending emails, and other tasks that may…

5 years ago

10 R functions for Linux commands and vice-versa

This post will go through 10 different Linux commands and their R alternatives. If you're interested in learning more R…

6 years ago

How to run R from the Task Scheduler

In a prior post, we covered how to run Python from the Task Scheduler on Windows. This article is similar,…

6 years ago

R: How to create, delete, move, and more with files

Though Python is usually thought of over R for doing system administration tasks, R is actually quite useful in this…

6 years ago

Running Python from the Task Scheduler

Background Running Python from the Windows Task Scheduler is a really useful capability. It allows you to run Python in…

7 years ago

File Manipulation with Python

Getting started Python is great for automating file creation, deletion, and other types of file manipulations.  Two of the primary…

7 years ago