Cross Platform Desktop Notifications

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

Once on CRAN, install the package with

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  title = "15 Packages out of date",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  "Outdated packages: Boom colorspace desc memuse networkD3",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