text_slackr: Sends basic text to a slack channel. Calls the...

In tmooney101/slacktest003: Send Messages, Images, R Objects and Files to 'Slack' Channels/Users

Description

Sends basic text to a slack channel. Calls the chat.postMessage method on the Slack Web API. Information on this method can be found here: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage

Usage

text_slackr(text, ..., preformatted = TRUE,
  channel = Sys.getenv("SLACK_CHANNEL"),
  username = Sys.getenv("SLACK_USERNAME"),
  icon_emoji = Sys.getenv("SLACK_ICON_EMOJI"),
  api_token = Sys.getenv("SLACK_API_TOKEN"))

textSlackr(text, ..., preformatted = TRUE,
  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

text	The character vector to be posted
...	Optional arguments such as: as_user, parse, unfurl_links, etc.
preformatted	Should the text be sent as preformatted text. Defaults to TRUE
channel	The name of the channels to which the DataTable should be sent. Prepend channel names with a hashtag. Prepend private-groups with nothing. Prepend direct messages with an @
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

Value

httr response object (invislbly)

Note

You can pass in add_user=TRUE as part of the ... parameters and the Slack API will post the message as your logged-in user account (this will override anything set in username)

Author(s)

Quinn Weber [aut], Bob Rudis [ctb]

References

https://github.com/hrbrmstr/slackr/pull/11

See Also

https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage

Examples

## Not run: 
slackr_setup()
text_slackr('hello world', as_user=TRUE)

## End(Not run)

tmooney101/slacktest003 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 4:39 p.m.