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cronR in Positron #8019

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JacksonChou asked this question in Q&A
Jun 7, 2025 · 1 comments · 1 reply
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You can use the cronR package as usual in Positron to schedule scripts. In other words this should work fine:

cron_add(cmd, frequency = 'minutely', id = 'job1', description = 'Customers')

However, cronR's RStudio add-in that adds a dialog you can use to create schedules won't work in Positron. Currently Positron only supports limited RStudio API features and doesn't support RStudio add-ins.

Positron supports the VS Code extension API and also has a full API for working with R and Python sessions, so it would be possible for someone to build a job scheduling UI for cronR in Positron!

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