How to schedule R scripts

How to schedule R scripts

R, System Administration
Running R with taskscheduleR and cronR In a previous post, we talked about how to run R from the Windows Task Scheduler. This article will talk about two additional approaches to schedule R scripts, including using the taskscheduleR package on Windows and the cronR package for Linux. For scheduling Python code, check out this post. Schedule R scripts with taskscheduleR Let's install taskscheduleR using the install.packages command. [code lang="R"] install.packages("taskscheduleR") [/code] Next, we just need to load the package to get started. [code lang="R"] library(taskscheduleR) [/code] Creating a sample R script to run automatically Before we do any scheduling, we need to first create a script. We'll save the code below in a file called "create_file.txt". This script will randomly generate a collection of integers and write them out to…
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Running Python from the Task Scheduler

Running Python from the Task Scheduler

Python, System Administration
Background Running Python from the Windows Task Scheduler is a really useful capability. It allows you to run Python in production on a Windows system, and can save countless hours of work. For instance, running code like extracting data from a database on an automated, regular basis is a common need at many companies. How to run Python from the command line Before we go into how to schedule a Python script to run, you need to understand how to run Python from the command line. To open the command prompt (command line), press the windows key and type cmd into the search box. Next, suppose your python script is called cool_python_script.py, and is saved under C:\Users. You can run this script from the command prompt by typing the below…
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