But, if it is important, I would rather recommend you to automate the script on the cloud, whether with Cloud Build or building your own virtual machine.

If the task is not super important it is ok to have it in your computer. Reliability: to automate a script on your computer might not be the best in all scenarios.But don’t worry on this post I will show you have to automate a script for both Windows and Mac users )

The Operative System: depending which OS you have the way you automate a script will change.

Sounds great right? So let’s learn how to automate a script in R! Previous Stepsīefore we begin to code we need to take two things into consideration: To learn how to automate scripts in R will avoid you from doing such tasks or even better it will enable you to help your company reduce costs., making you more valuable. In fact, according to this study we spend 552 hours a yers doing repetitive tasks. To run a script on your computer or tu build a Shiny App so that other people can see your analysis is ok, but if that’s your situation, you are missing one of the most important things as a Data Scientist: how to automate scripts (in this case in R).

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