https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/dialga/ Recent content in Dialga on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/10/dialga/ Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/10/dialga/ tl;dr I made the small proof-of-concept R package {dialga} to help build and interpret standard cron expressions using familiar R syntax. r2cron() converts R to cron; cron2eng() converts cron to English. Cronwhat? You can schedule scripts to run at specific times using software on your computer called ‘cron’. You can set up ‘cron jobs’ to specify what needs to be run. A key part of the recipe is a short cron string that provides instructions about when to run it.