slackr (version 1.4.2)

slackr_msg: Output R expressions to a Slack channel/user

Description

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

Usage

slackr_msg(txt = "", channel = Sys.getenv("SLACK_CHANNEL"),
  username = Sys.getenv("SLACK_USERNAME"),
  icon_emoji = Sys.getenv("SLACK_ICON_EMOJI"),
  api_token = Sys.getenv("SLACK_API_TOKEN"), ...)
slackrMsg(txt = "", channel = Sys.getenv("SLACK_CHANNEL"),
  username = Sys.getenv("SLACK_USERNAME"),
  icon_emoji = Sys.getenv("SLACK_ICON_EMOJI"),
  api_token = Sys.getenv("SLACK_API_TOKEN"), ...)

Arguments

txt

text message to send to Slack. If a character vector of length > 1 is passed in, they will be combined and separated by newlines.

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

api_token

your full slack.com API token

...

other arguments passed to the Slack API chat.postMessage call

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.

See Also

slackr_setup, slackr_bot, dev_slackr, save_slackr, slackr_upload

Examples

# NOT RUN {
slackr_setup()
slackr_msg("Hi")
# }