RPushbullet 0.1.1

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A minor bugfix release 0.1.1 of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) landed on CRAN yesterday morning.

It cleans up a small issue related to the ability to transfer files between devices via the Pushbullet service where the ability to select a (non-default) target device has now been restored.

With that, allow me to borrow one excellent use case of RPushbullet from the blog of Karl Broman: how to use RPushbullet for error notifications from R:

options(error = function() {
    library(RPushbullet)
    pbPost("note", "Error", geterrmessage())
})

This is very clever: should an error occur, you get immediate notification in browser or on your phone. Left as an exercise for the reader is to combine this with the equally excellent rfoaas package (github|cran) to get appropriately colourful error messages…

More details about the package are at the RPushbullet webpage and the RPushbullet GitHub repo.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release.

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