telegram.bot (version 1.0.0)

start_polling: start_polling

Description

Starts polling updates from Telegram. You can stop the polling either by using the the interrupt R command in the session menu or with the stop_polling method.

Usage

start_polling(timeout = 10, clean = FALSE, allowed_updates = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

timeout

(Optional). Passed to get_updates. Default is 10.

clean

(Optional). Whether to clean any pending updates on Telegram servers before actually starting to poll. Default is FALSE.

allowed_updates

(Optional). Passed to get_updates.

verbose

(Optional). If TRUE, prints status of the polling. Default is FALSE.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Start polling example
updater <- Updater(token = 'TOKEN')

updater$start_polling(verbose = TRUE)
# }