Run cron job within RStudio

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Hello,

I am trying to schedule a cron job via RStudio on EC2 instance.
When I use a basic script with very basic functions it works fine.
But when I want to schedule a script that contains R functions from specfic R packages, the scripts fails.

My cron looks like this:

MAILTO="myemail@adress.com"
36 * * * * /home/user1/Test_for_Cron.R

After the script is launched, I receive an email from Cron Daemon specifying something like:

Error in R_function :
could not find function R_function
Execution halted

From what I found, it seems I have to specify that I want to run the script within RStudio or that I want to "source" it.
I have the feeling the answer might be in the combination of these 3 posts below but I am not finding the solution after testing out some suggestions:

Help much appreciated !

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I personally don't have experience with cronr but it's a curious error.

Any way you could create a reproducible example of this error with an example .R script and cron script?

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I actually found it, I just needed to install the package before... Thanks !

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