Custom SLURM execution commands?

[jgrn307]

So I've got a pretty weird situation -- I'm running R from within a singularity container on an HPC, and to date the only way for me to have containerized R submit a slurm job is to have it run a ssh remote command, e.g. for squeue, I need to:

ssh USER@HOSTNAME squeue

(this works fine from within a system3 call).

My question is: is there some way (or could the developers include) a way to set custom executables for the SLURM calls?

I've tried making aliases in the container for squeue but R doesn't seem to "see" the aliases. Thoughts?