Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using R

When developing software, there is a need for a way to track important events and be notified when something happens. LogSnag provides an easy way to track important events and be notified in real-time on your Desktop, Phone, and SmartWatch.

Our API makes it very easy for anyone to integrate LogSnag into their R code. You can simply send an HTTP request to our API with any additional information you like, and we will take care of the rest.

Setting up LogSnag with R is as easy as using our code snippets with no custom modules required.

Set up your LogSnag account

1. Head to LogSnag.com and create your free account.
2. Create a new project from your dashboard.
3. Copy your API token from the API settings.

Log your events via R

1. Copy one of the following code snippets into your text editor
2. Replace your API token, project name, and channel name.
3. Run your R code!

R snippets for LogSnag

library(httr)

headers = c(
  'Content-Type' = 'application/json',
  'Authorization' = 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
)

body = '{
  "project": "my-saas",
  "channel": "waitlist",
  "event": "Waitlist Member",
  "description": "email: john@example.com",
  "icon": "🔥",
  "notify": true
}';

res <- VERB("POST", url = "https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log", body = body, add_headers(headers))

cat(content(res, 'text'))

library(RCurl)
headers = c(
  "Content-Type" = "application/json",
  "Authorization" = "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
)
params = "{
  \"project\": \"my-saas\",
  \"channel\": \"waitlist\",
  \"event\": \"Waitlist Member\",
  \"description\": \"email: john@example.com\",
  \"icon\": \"🔥\",
  \"notify\": true
}"
res <- postForm("https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log", .opts=list(postfields = params, httpheader = headers, followlocation = TRUE), style = "httppost")
cat(res)

Conclusion

Once an event is published, you get instant updates in real-time, and you could optionally turn on or off push notifications depending on the priority of your event.

Also, LogSnag makes it very easy to organize your events into different projects and channels depending on their topic and provides you with a global and project-wide feed so you can scroll through your events.

In addition, with our collaborative features, you can add team members to a project so that everyone can receive push notifications and updates, regardless of the desktop or mobile platform they are using.

You can learn more about our API by heading to docs.logsnag.com

Other use-cases for LogSnag

1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your R application
2. Monitor your CPU usage in your R application
3. Monitor when database goes down in your R application
4. Monitor high disk usage in your R application
5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your R application
6. Monitor failed logins in your R application
7. Monitor failed payments for your R application
8. Monitor memory usage in your R application
9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your R application
10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your R application
11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your R application
12. Monitor Redis downtime in your R application
13. Monitor suspicious activity in your R application
14. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your R service
15. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your R application
16. Get a notification when your R code is done executing
17. Track canceled subscriptions in your R application
18. Track your R cron jobs
19. Track when a file is uploaded to your R application
20. Track when a form is submitted to your R application
21. Track payment events via R
22. Track user sign in events in R
23. Track user signup events via R
24. Track waitlist signup events via R