So I wrote a little package mygmailR, that will instead pull your private information from a file ( ~/.gmail_private).

The only problem with gmailR is that you have to pass your gmail account and password to the gmail() function, and you don’t really want to have that stuff sitting in your R script. gmailR includes a function cell2email() that will help you figure out the appropriate email address to use, to send a text to your phone. And since most cell phone companies have a method for sending a text via email, you can use this same function to send yourself a text. You can send yourself an email using the gmail() function. There are a number of different packages for sending email from R (e.g., sendmailR and mailR). So I’m instead having my scripts send me a text or a notification via pushbullet. It could be useful for local jobs on my Mac, but most of the time my computer is muted or the sound goes to my headphones (and my headphones are not always on my head). I tried these cat sounds, but they came out (with my computer’s speaker) sounding more like a really unhappy electronic lion…not very pleasant.īeepr is cool, but most of my long-running jobs are on a distant server.

library(beepr)īeepr comes with a bunch of different sounds (e.g., try beep('facebook')), or use a path to any wav file. Then, at the bottom of your script, load the package and have it beep.

Install it from CRAN with install.packages('beepr') You can use Rasmus Baath’s beepr package to have your computer play a sound. How to know when it’s done? Have it notify you by beeping, sending you a text, or sending you a notification via pushbullet.

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