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 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…