Issues running a WEEKLY task

[alapo]

Hello,

I apologize ahead of time if this issue is silly. I am trying to run a WEEKLY tasks. For reproducibility I am using the code in the vignette shown below

library(taskscheduleR)
myscript <- system.file("extdata", "helloworld.R", package = "taskscheduleR")

## Run every week on Saturday and Sunday at 09:10
taskscheduler_create(taskname = "myfancyscript_sunsat", rscript = myscript, 
                     schedule = "WEEKLY", starttime = "09:10", days = c('SUN', 'SAT'))

Running this code leads to the following error

[1] "ERROR: Invalid Start Date (Date should be in \"yyyy/mm/dd\" format).\r"
attr(,"status")
[1] 16389
Warning message:
In system(cmd, intern = TRUE) :
  running command 'schtasks /Create /TN "myfancyscript_sunsat" /TR "cmd /c C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.4/bin/Rscript.exe \"C:/Users/Gertrude/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/taskscheduleR/extdata/helloworld.R\"  >> \"C:/Users/Gertrude/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/taskscheduleR/extdata/helloworld.log\" 2>&1" /SC WEEKLY /ST 09:10 /SD "02/08/2021" /D SUN,SAT ' had status 16389

What I have done to troubleshoot the issue

I have looked throughout the repo for similar issues, I have attempted them and they fail to fix my problem. Below is a recap

• Looked up this question on StackOverflow

• Issue 15 which recommended checking the number of character is less than 260

  • Does not apply to this code since the number of characters is 80

• Tried the code from Issue 11 but this gives me an "ERROR: Invalid Start Date (Date should be in \"yyyy/mm/dd\" format).\r" error

• Issue 84

If anyone has any advice on this error it would be greatly appreciated. I can create a task using other timelines.

Testing a task ONCE

For example running it once as shown below does work

library(taskscheduleR)
myscript <- system.file("extdata", "helloworld.R", package = "taskscheduleR")

## run script once within 62 seconds
taskscheduler_create(taskname = "myfancyscript", rscript = myscript, 
                     schedule = "ONCE", starttime = format(Sys.time() + 62, "%H:%M"))

Testing Task DAILY

Gives me the Invalid Start Date error I changed the starttime argument

library(taskscheduleR)
myscript <- system.file("extdata", "helloworld.R", package = "taskscheduleR")

## Run every week on Saturday and Sunday at 09:10
taskscheduler_create(taskname = "myfancyscript_sunsat", rscript = myscript, 
                     schedule = "WEEKLY", starttime = "09:10", days = c('SUN', 'SAT'))

so I changed the format of startdate

taskscheduler_create(taskname = "myfancyscript_sunsat", 
                     rscript = myscript, 
                     schedule = "WEEKLY",
                     startdate = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y/%m/%d"),
                     starttime = "09:10", 
                     days = "1",
                     )

But this still gave me an error

[1] "ERROR: Invalid value for /D option."     "Type \"SCHTASKS /CREATE /?\" for usage."
attr(,"status")
[1] 16389

[jwijffels]

Have you tried

taskscheduler_create(taskname = "myfancyscript_sunsat", 
                     rscript = myscript, 
                     schedule = "WEEKLY",
                     startdate = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y/%m/%d"),
                     starttime = "09:10", 
                     days = c('SUN', 'SAT')
                     )

[alapo]

That's perfect! Is this something that changes on a system to system basis?

[jwijffels]

Yes, it depends on how you setup Windows in particular your locale settings of Windows.