slackr (version 1.2)

slackrBot: Output R expressions to a slack.com channel/user (as slackbot)

Description

Takes an expr, evaluates it and sends the output to a slack.com chat destination. Useful for logging, messaging on long compute tasks or general information sharing.

Usage

slackrBot(..., channel = Sys.getenv("SLACK_CHANNEL"),
  username = Sys.getenv("SLACK_USERNAME"),
  icon_emoji = Sys.getenv("SLACK_ICON_EMOJI"),
  incoming_webhook_url = Sys.getenv("SLACK_INCOMING_URL_PREFIX"),
  token = Sys.getenv("SLACK_TOKEN"))

Arguments

...

expressions to be sent to Slack.com

channel

which channel to post the message to (chr)

username

what user should the bot be named as (chr)

icon_emoji

what emoji to use (chr) "" will mean use the default

incoming_webhook_url

which slack.com API endpoint URL to use

token

your webhook API token

Details

By default, everyting but expr will be looked for in a "SLACK_" environment variable. You can override or just specify these values directly instead, but it's probably better to call slackrSetup first.

This function uses the incoming webhook API and posts user messages as slackbot

See Also

slackrSetup, slackr, dev.slackr, save.slackr, slackrUpload

Examples

slackrSetup()
slackr("iris info", head(iris), str(iris))