Building a Telegram Chatbot with R

If you want to learn more about Telegram Bots with R, you can look at these resources:Package telegram.bot GitHub Repo or its Wiki to look at all methods and features available.You can also check Telegram’s documentation Bots: An introduction for developers and Telegram Bot API to familiarize with the API.The code used to build our chatbot would be, in short:library(telegram.bot)# start handler functionstart <- function(bot, update){ bot$sendMessage(chat_id = update$message$chat_id, text = sprintf("Hello %s!", update$message$from$first_name))}# echo handler functionecho <- function(bot, update){ bot$sendMessage(chat_id = update$message$chat_id, text = update$message$text)}# build the updaterupdater <- Updater(token = bot_token("RTelegramBot")) + CommandHandler("start", start) + MessageHandler(echo, MessageFilters$text)# start pollingupdater$start_polling()With this tutorial you may have a global overview of the Telegram Bot API and the first guidelines to develop your own chatbot with R.I hope you enjoyed it!. More details

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