If you are working on a Windows computer and want to schedule your R scripts while you are off running, sleeping or having a coffee break, the taskscheduleR package might be what you are looking for.
The taskscheduleR R package is available at https://github.com/jwijffels/taskscheduleR and it allows R users to do the following:
i) Get the list of scheduled tasks
ii) Remove a task
iii) Add a task
– A task is basically a script with R code which is run through Rscript
– You can schedule tasks ‘ONCE’, ‘MONTHLY’, ‘WEEKLY’, ‘DAILY’, ‘HOURLY’, ‘MINUTE’, ‘ONLOGON’, ‘ONIDLE’
– After the script has run, you can check the log which can be found at the same folder as the R script. It contains the stdout & stderr of the Rscript.
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library(taskscheduleR)<br>myscript <- system.file(
"extdata"
,
"helloworld.R"
, package =
"taskscheduleR"
)<br><br>## run script once within 62 seconds<br>taskscheduler_create(taskname =
"myfancyscript"
, rscript = myscript, <br> schedule =
"ONCE"
, starttime = format(Sys.time() + 62,
"%H:%M"
))<br>## run script every day at 09:10<br>taskscheduler_create(taskname =
"myfancyscriptdaily"
, rscript = myscript, <br> schedule =
"DAILY"
, starttime =
"09:10"
)<br><br>##
delete
the tasks<br>taskscheduler_delete(taskname =
"myfancyscript"
)<br>taskscheduler_delete(taskname =
"myfancyscriptdaily"
)
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- When the task has run, you can look at the log which contains everything from stdout and stderr. The log file is located at the directory where the R script is located.
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## log file is at the place where the helloworld.R script was located<br>system.file(
"extdata"
,
"helloworld.log"
, package =
"taskscheduleR"
)
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Who wants to set up an RStudio add-in for this?