Work Automation with R

Automating real-world data science workflows, reports, dashboards, and pipelines with R

Expected publication: August 1, 2026

Tiger Tang

About the Book

Many data science tasks are repetitive: generating reports, updating dashboards, monitoring metrics, sending alerts, and maintaining data pipelines. These tasks are ideal candidates for automation.

Work Automation with R demonstrates how R can be used to build practical automation systems that reduce manual effort while making data workflows scalable and reproducible.

The book focuses on real-world use cases and shows how R can automate:

data ingestion and transformation
report generation and dashboards
email and messaging workflows
database interactions
scheduled jobs and monitoring
internal tools built with Shiny

Rather than focusing only on individual packages, the book emphasizes end-to-end workflows that connect multiple tools together.

What You Will Learn

By reading this book, you will learn how to:

design automation pipelines using R
build reproducible reporting workflows
automate data processing and delivery
create internal tools with Shiny
integrate R with messaging platforms and APIs
schedule and monitor automated jobs

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for:

data scientists
analysts
business intelligence developers
R users interested in automating their workflows

A basic working knowledge of R is helpful, but advanced programming experience is not required.

Learn More

The book will be published by CRC Press.

More information is available on the official publisher page.