Write Slack message

Write a Slack message for posting now or later.

Usage

slack_posts_write(
  body,
  when = "now",
  tz = "America/Winnipeg",
  channel = "#testing-api",
  dry_run = FALSE
)

Arguments

body

Character. Text of message to post.

when

Character or Date/time. When to post message (timezone is ignored, see tz).

tz

Character. Timezone of when.

channel

Character. Channel to post message to.

dry_run

Logical. Test run?

Value

Success message

Details

See https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/formatting-message-text#special-mentions https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/formatting-message-text#mentioning-users

References

• https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/sending-and-scheduling-messages

• https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/sending-and-scheduling-messages#scheduling

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
slack_posts_write("testing on Tuesday")
slack_posts_write("testing more and more", when = Sys.time() + 3600, tz = "Europe/Paris")
slack_posts_write(
  paste(
  "Join us for Social Coworking and office hours next week!",
  "",
  ":grey_exclamation: Theme: TESTING",
  ":hourglass_flowing_sand: When: TODAY!",
  ":cookie: Hosted by: USER! and cohost HOST",
  "",
  "You can use this time for...",
  "- General coworking", sep = "\n"), when = "now")

# Dry runs
slack_posts_write("testing on Tuesday", dry_run = TRUE)
slack_posts_write(
  "testing [this cool link](https://mycoolsite.com)",
  dry_run = TRUE
)
}