When writing R scripts that involve connecting to a database, it is relatively simple to set up the connection at the start of the script (dbConnect), do all of the required queries (dbGetQuery, dbWriteTable etc.) and then at the ... [Read more...]

A month or so ago, over 700 R package maintainers were e-mailed about the potential removal of the {lubridate} package due to a test failing on MacOS systems. This is a chunk of the 1000+ lines email that about 900+ #rstats packa... [Read more...]

There are several ways to send notifications with R when a scheduled job/process has completed running, but if it errors during that process then we still want to have a notification that the script has been unsuccessful. Normall... [Read more...]