Cross Platform Desktop Notifications

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

notifier has been removed from the CRAN repository by request of the maintainer, but version 1.0.0 can still be installed from the CRAN archives with

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/notifier/notifier_1.0.0.tar.gz")

To install the latest version from GitHub, however, you may issue the following instead:

remotes::install_github("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.

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  title = "15 Packages out of date",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  "Outdated packages: Boom colorspace desc memuse networkD3",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")
)

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

MIT © Gábor Csárdi