Question

I have some scripts I’d like to run each morning at 6am. These scripts produce some pdfs of graphical output into a file: foo.pdf

I’d like my system (let’s say Win 7, >= R 2.13) to email me these pdf’s once the system has finished running the scripts.

Which is the best package – and most robust way of setting it up – to have these reports emailed to me directly via attachment from R?

Are there any ‘cool’ extensions to this (like sink() -ing report text output into the body of the email)?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Answer 1

You can harness the power of a package that can handle emails coupled with a chron job. On Windows 7, I’ve achieved something akin to this using Windows Task Scheduler. Basically, you set it to run a particular script at a specified time.