@CRANberriesFeed to
receive theses messages.
For the technically minded, adding this to the existing 200-line program which runs all of CRANberries was very easy. CRANberries relies only on R itself and a few Unix tools like diffstat as well as the simple blosxom txt-to-html/rss 'blog compiler'. The tweeting itself is now done by this new function
which simply pipes the message in Greg KH's bti program (which is now a new dependency). Special thanks to its Debian maintainer Gregor Herrmann for some helpful emails; I am using the newest release 0.29 which itself needs liboauth0. Once OAuth tokens are set-up (and see here for how to do that) all we need is the three-liner above.tweetNewBlogEntry <- function(curPkg, curVer, reposurl) { ## tests reveal that pipe(), cat(), close() is easiest ## to send multiple messages, may need --background option con <- pipe("bti --config bti.conf", "w") cat("New CRAN package", curPkg, "with initial version", curVer, " http://goo.gl/pgljT\n", file=con) close(con) }
At this point I am not too sure what to do about updated packages. One message per updated package seems too noisy. To be seen---comments or suggestions welcome.