Cross Platform Desktop Notifications

Send desktop notifications from R, on macOS, Windows and Linux.

notifier

Cross Platform Desktop Notifications

Send desktop notifications from R, on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Installation

source("https://install-github.me/gaborcsardi/notifier")

notifier has no R package dependencies, and no system requirements other than the notify-send command line tool on Linux and other Unix-like systems. notify-send is available in the default installation on most Desktop Linux installations.

Usage

library(notifier)
notify(
  title = "15 Packages out of date",
  msg = c("You can run update.packages() to update them.",
  "Outdated packages: Boom colorspace desc memuse networkD3",
  "pbapply revealjs rgl rmdformats timevis and 5 more")
)

Thanks

notifier uses various tools on the different platform:

• On macOS, it uses terminal-notifier: https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
• On Linux and other Unix-like systems it uses notify-send from libnotify.
• On recent Windows systems it uses toaster: https://github.com/nels-o/toaster
• Older Windows versions it uses notifu: https://www.paralint.com/projects/notifu

License

MIT © Gábor Csárdi