README.md

In ja-thomas/RTelegram: use the telegram bot api to send stuff from R to your smartphone

RTelegram

The project is still in an early phase, but some basic functionality is already working.

This is essentially a wrapper for the telegram bot API.

The idea is to use the telegram bot API to send

• Simulation status and results
• Crash logs
• images

directly from R to your smartphone.

Installation

You can install the package directly from github with the devtools package:

library(devtools)
install_github("ja-thomas/RTelegram")

Or you can just clone this repository and load it in R via:

library(devtools)
load_all("[path]/RTelegram")

Basic usage

To create a bot you first have to use the botfather. For an in depth introduction on how to create a bot visit the telegram bot FAQ.

After creating a bot you recieve a token.

You can check if your bot works with the validate_bot() function

For security reasons bots are only allowed to send messages to real accounts after they recieved a message from that person. After sending your bot a message from your telegram app, you can call recieve_chat_id() to get your chat_id.

Only with the correct token and chat_id you are able to send messages from R to your smartphone.

Now you can send messages with send_message() and images with send_image().

ja-thomas/RTelegram documentation built on May 18, 2019, 7:15 a.m.