Set cron job from R?

[rossmounce]

Investigate cronR https://github.com/bnosac/cronR
suggested by Thomas https://twitter.com/thomasingalls/status/826437598713294849

[rossmounce]

The warning is a little bit scary, I have existing cron jobs that I don't want erased:
"Currently, cronR does not preserve or handle cron jobs not generated through the package"

Perhaps direct users to the existence of package & provide an example but don't make it automatically executed.

[sje30]

I'm not sure cronR is needed, just run this as a regular script from cron?

[rossmounce]

I'm just not sure all that many people know how to setup a cronjob.
If there was Rcode to just run & magically have it done, that'd be great.
But then that kind of user may not have an always on machine anyway

[chartgerink]

Maybe you could check out the system() function, seems like it could just echo the job into the cron file.