Sending Scheduled emails in R {gmailr} {taskscheduleR}

[Karthik]

Hey guys!

I wrote a R script to send emails using {gmailr} package. Works fine manually.
I tried to automate using R taskscheduler option with the following code and returns an error.

library(gmailr)
library(tidyverse)
library(dplyr)
library(taskscheduleR)

taskscheduler_create(taskname = "auto_email", 
                     rscript = scheduled_script_path,
                     schedule = "MINUTE", 
                     starttime = format(Sys.time(), "%H:%M:%S"), 
                     startdate = format(Sys.time(), "%m/%d/%Y"))

test_email <-gm_mime() %>% 
  gm_to("receipent@gmail.com") %>%
  gm_from("sender@gmail.com") %>%
  gm_subject("this is just a gmailr test") %>%
  gm_text_body("Can you hear me now3?") 

# Send Email
gm_send_message(test_email)

Aforementioned code halts the execution with the following message in the log file.

"Error: Must create an app and register it with gm_auth_configure() Execution halted"

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.
Karthik

[Sivuyile]

It looks like you have an authentication error. Before you complete the send email functionally, it may be best to start on the gmailr tutorial . Some Google APIs require a developer account, which in turn, will provide you access to your credentials file.