Using Slackr

Join the Slack Team to share your opinions and expertise on all things R! This is a local group and serves as a supplement to the popular CinDay-RUG Meetup organized by Jim Holtman, Jermey Christman & Joel Chaney.

+ + = Collaboration

Slack has an API that allows incoming-webhooks to deliver R Objects/Outputs directly into Slack Channels. To access these features each team member will need to:

• Generate a Test Token from the Administrative Settings.
• Add an incoming webhook to the channel unless one already exists
• Choose a name for your integration

# install.packages("slackr") # from CRAN
library(slackr)
slackr_setup(config_file = ".learning")

• slackr_setup initializes necessary environment variables
• slackr sends stuff to Slack
• ggslackr sends a ggplot object to a Slack channel
• save_slackr save R objects to an RData file on Slack

token: YOUR_SLACK_API_TOKEN
channel: #general
username: slackr
incoming_webhook_url: https://YOURTEAM.slack.com/services/hooks/incoming-webhook?

… in a basic file with a verifiable path for slackr_setup to find.

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