Let's assume I have an R script located in C:\Users\user\myscript.R. How can I assign a hotkey (e.g., F1) so that every time that I press that hotkey the R script will be executed in the background (i.e., without opening Rstudio)?
Note:
I use Windows 10 and have AutoHotkey installed which might help to bind the script to the key.
This solution involves three steps:
1) Create a .bat file that executes the R script (as suggested by Daniel O):
runscript.bat (located in C:\Users\user\runscript.bat)
"C:\Program Files\R\R-4.0.0\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH "C:\Users\user\myscript.R"
2) Bind the .bat script to the Home hotkey with the open-source software AutoHotkey by creating a .ahk script (as suggested by D. Pardal):
bindscript.ahk (located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp so it will automatically load-up on start-up, see this)
Home::Run, runscript.bat, C:\Users\user
3) Set environment variable for R on windows 10 following this tutorial.
press win+r, type "shell:startup", and press enter. It should bring up file explorer. There, you can create a different script and write this inside it:
F1::
Run, C:\Users\user\myscript.R
This will make the trigger script run at startup, so that whenever you press f1, myscript.r will run
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I wanted to use a Windows .bat file to run several R scripts and schedule it using windows scheduler.
However, when I test using windows scheduler, everything executes but the files that the R scripts should create are never created. Instead, when I double-click on the .bat file itself it works fine. My goal is for several scripts to just run overnight without me going in and running each one of them manually one-by-one.
If I were to add a second line to the .bat file that would make it run a second script, would this execute only after the first is complete? If not, would I be able to delay the second until the first finishes somehow?? For instance, my .bat file looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.2\bin\x64\R.exe" CMD BATCH C:\Users\gma\Desktop\R_Task\script1.R
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.2\bin\x64\R.exe" CMD BATCH C:\Users\gma\Desktop\R_Task\script2.R
I used the answer provided by #Gautam (R taskscheduleR not executing script) to get this far
shell_exec("Rscript C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin\code.R ");
This is the call to script.On calling the above script, the error occurs.
I am trying to call my R script from the above path but no output is being shown. While checking the error logs of PHP, it says 'Rscript' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.' The script is working fine on the Rstudio but not running on the command line.
Add the Rscript path to your environment variables in Windows:
Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System and click Advanced System Settings, then environment variables, click on path in the lower box, edit, add "C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin"
Restart everything. Should be good to go. Then you should be able to do
exec('Rscript PATH/TO/my_code.R')
instead of typing the full path to Rscript. Won't need the path to your my_code.R script if your php file is in the same directory.
You need to set the proper path where your RScript.exe program is located.
exec ("\"C:\\R\\R-3.2.2\\bin\\Rscript.exe\"
C:\\My_work\\R_scripts\\my_code.R my_args";
#my_args only needed if you script take `args`as input to run
other way is you declare header in your r script (my_code.r)
#!/usr/bin/Rscript
and call it from command line
./my_code.r
If you are running it in Git Bash terminal, you could follow a revised version of the idea suggested by #user5249203: in the first line of your file my_code.R, type the following
#!/c/R/R-3.2.2/bin/Rscript.exe
I assumed that your path to Rscript.exe is the one listed above C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin. For anyone having a different path to Rscript.exe in Windows, just modify the path-to-Rscript accordingly. After this modification of your R code, you could run it in the Git Bash terminal using path-to-the-code/mycode.R. I have tested it on my pc.
I faced the same problem while using r the first time in VS Code, just after installing the language package (CRAN).
I restart the application and everything worked perfectly. I think restarting would work for you as well.
I'm basically looking for any way to automatically run R scripts just like it would run as if I was copy and pasting it into console. I've tried the package 'taskscheduleR' however it just seems to output to a log file in the directory which isn't as if I were to just run it inside the Rstudio application.
An example might be, say I want to get the last closing stock prices of 5 stocks each night, then the script in Rstudio and have the variables there and all of the code would be in the script file.
Any thoughts?
I would suggest the in-built Task Scheduler application if you using Windows.
Create a task that will run a batchscript file. This batchscript file has only 1 line which executes the Rscript you want. Set it to run each night (or whatever time you want).
I am not that well-versed in linux and MacOS but here's what I know:
Linux has cron. Add a job to crontab with your preferred timing and execute your script 'path/to/bin/r /path/to/script.r'
MacOS has Automator + iCal (for scheduling). It also has crontab like Linux.
I'm effectively trying to tack save.image() onto the end of a script without modifying that script.
I was hoping something like Rscript target_script.R | saveR.R destination_path would work, where saveR.R reads,
args.from.usr<-commandArgs(TRUE)
setwd(args.from.usr[1])
save.image(file=".RData")
But that clearly does not work. Any alternatives?
You can write an R script file that takes two parameters: 1, the script file you want to run, and 2, the file you want to save the image to.
# runAndSave.R ------
args.from.usr <- commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)
source(args.from.usr[1])
setwd(args.from.usr[2])
save.image(file=".RData")
And then run it with
Rscript runAndSave.R target_script.R destination_path
You could try to program a task to be done within the OS of that computer. In Linux you will be using the terminal and there is this tool called CRON. In Windows you can use Task Scheduler. If you program the OS to open a terminal and load an script and later save the image, you maybe will get what you need, save the data generated from the script without actually modifying it.
I have created a batch file to launch R scripts in Rterm.exe. This works well for regular weekly tasks. The < PBWeeklyMeetingScriptV3.R > is the R script run by Rterm.
set R_TERM="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64\Rterm.exe"
%R_TERM% --slave --no-restore --no-save --args 20120401 20110403 01-apr-12 03-apr-11 < PBWeeklyMeetingScriptV3.R > PBWeeklyMeetingScriptV3.batch 2> error.txt
I've tried to modify this to launch the R GUI instead of the background process as I'd like to inspect and potentially manipulate and inspect the data.
If I change my batch file to:
set R_TERM="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64\Rgui.exe"
the batch file will launch the R GUI but doesn't start the script. Is there a way to launch the script too?
Alternatively is there a way to save/load the work space image to access the variables that are created in the script?
You can save and load workspaces by using save.image() and load(). I do this all the time when scripting to pass data sets between two separate script files, tied together using Python or bash. At the end of each R script, just add:
save.image("Your_image_name.RData")
The image will be the workspace that existed whenever the command was run (so, if it's the last command in the file, it's the workspace right before the exist of the file). We also use this at my job to create "snapshots" of input and output data, so we can reproduce the research later. (We use a simple naming convention to get the time of run, and then label the files with that).
Not sure about launching and then running the GUI with specific scripts in it; I don't think that's a feature you'll find in R, simply because the whole point of running a batch file is usually to avoid the GUI. But hopefully, you can just save the image to disk, and then look at it or pass it to other programs as needed. Hope that helps!