Tag: Automated Reporting
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Create Professional Reports in Excel using R and XLSX
While R is the real workhorse of data analysis and modeling, if you want to share the results of your work with other people your probably going to send it in a spreadsheet. Luckily the xlsx package for R makes it easy to export simple spreadsheets and also has advanced functionality to create workbooks with…
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Scheduling R scripts to run automatically in Windows
A key component in data acquisition or reporting is the ability to trigger your script to run at a set time each day. Whether you are attempting to download the latest stock prices or update corporate earnings reports, once you’ve created the script to do the actual work, you need to find a way for…
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Save time and improve accuracy by automating the repetitive (boring) stuff
Corporate reporting is a prime candidate for automation if you can clearly explain the process to produce it, and the process remains consistent over time. Automating your reports has many potential benefits, it can save time, reduce errors, and alleviate the boredom caused by performing repetitive tasks.
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Advanced email in R: embedding images and markdown
Previously we looked at how you can combine R and Markdown to create reports directly from your R scripts, and also how to send email from R using Microsoft Outlook. In this post, we’ll take these concepts a step further and look at how we can use R to embed images in email messages or…
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Quickly create polished, professional reports with Markdown and R
One underappreciated feature in R is the ability to easily create beautiful reports using Markdown. Markdown files contain a combination of code and text, allowing you to write your analysis alongside your code and publish both the analysis document and code in a wide variety of formats with little effort.
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Error catching, logging, and reporting in R with tryCatchLog
One of the biggest benefits from creating an automatic reporting framework is that you no longer need to directly supervise the creation and distribution of reports. However, when things go wrong it can be difficult to understand what went wrong and why. Luckily, R’s tryCatchLog package makes it easy to trap and log errors as…
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Sending email from Outlook in R
When setting up automated reporting workflows, a key component is distributing the report to the various stakeholders so they can review it. One useful technique is to send a “push notification” by email to alert everyone that a report or analysis task has just been completed. Luckily, it isn’t hard to send out email from…