Use the Twilio API with R! A bit more feature rich than twilio and on-going development that reflects real life business use of Twilio for data science. As we add more features from Twilio into our work we will keep this package updated and publicly available.
Install using devtools
devtools::install_github("happycabbage/twilior")To use you will need to setup an account on Twilio and get your Twilio ACCOUNT_ID and SID_ID which are needed universally. You can add them to your .RProfile or the config package if needed to set them as enviornment variables.
Sys.setenv(TWILIO_TOKEN = 'YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID')
Sys.setenv(TWILIO_SID = 'YOUR_SID')You can also set the ID if the Notify Service and Messaging Service you use if you use them.
Sys.setenv(TWILIO_NOTIFY_SID = 'YOUR_NOTIFY_SID`)
Sys.setenv(TWILIO_MESSAGING_SERVICE = 'YOUR_MESSAGING_SERVICE_SID')Don't like enviornment variables? Don't worry! You can always pass the params into the function directly (e.g. if you are using the config package).
The functions are pretty basic if you are familiar with the Twilio API. Even if you aren't, as long as you've ever sent an SMS you should get the hang of it quick.
tw_send_text(to = '2128675309', from = '1-800-BANANAS', message = 'Snape kills Dumbledore')tw_send_text(to = '2128675309', from = '1-800-BANANAS', message = 'Snape kills Dumbledore', service_sid = 'XX123XXXX')