Setting up your hipchat token.

Setting-Up-Hipchat-Token.md

Setting up your Hipchat API token

First, visit the Hipchat account API page. You will have to login with you avantcredit.com hipchat account.

Scroll down and create your Hipchat token with the following permissions:

The token should appear in the list above. Copy the token, and then run the following line from your terminal (with the token replaced by your token):

echo "options(hipchat.api_token = '7PBfjOzd6tvewlHBAxsJxZImRU6ONHe2kjBYvpCQ')" >> ~/.Rprofile

The Rprofile file allows you to customize your R session at startup. By executing the above, you have ensured that the hipchat.api_token R global option is set during startup.

Finally, install the hipchat package, and you should be able to send messages on Hipchat from within the R console! Run the R code below to install the hipchat package.

source("~/.Rprofile") # Ensure your hipchat token is loaded.

if (!is.element("devtools", utils::installed.packages()[, 1])) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}

if (!is.element("hipchat", utils::installed.packages()[, 1])) {
  devtools::install_github("robertzk/hipchat")
}

You can check that things work correctly by hipchatting the Analytics room:

hipchat::hipchat("Analytics", "Hello, world.")