uptimerobot.contact.new: Add a new alert contact
In uptimeRobot: Access the UptimeRobot Ping API

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

uptimerobot.contact.new creates a new alert contact with the given properties.

1	uptimerobot.contact.new(api.key, type, value, friendly.name)

`api.key`	string with a valid key for connecting to Uptimerobot API.
`type`	string or numeric with the type of the contact. You can use both the value (string) or the index (numeric) here.
`value`	string with the value of the contact (ie. the email address).
`friendly.name`	string the friendly (screen) name of the contact.

The alert contacts are whom to be notified when the monitor goes up/down.

The index lookup keys and values are available on the Uptimerobot API page on https://uptimerobot.com/api

The function returns the ID of the newly created contact in case success. An error is thrown otherwise.

Gabriele Baldassarre

uptimerobot.contacts, uptimerobot.contact.delete

## Not run: 
 # Let's assume the api.key is available into the environment variable KEY
 api.key <- Sys.getenv("KEY", "")
 # Create a new contact and get the ID
 contact.new <- uptimerobot.contact.new(api.key, type = "email", value = "foo@bar.com", "John Doe")

 # Get informations about this new contact
 contact.detail <- uptimerobot.contacts(api.key, contacts = contact.new)

## End(Not run)