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Craft macOS Menu Bar Applications with Rscript

Mat Ryer’s macOS utilityhttps://getbitbar.com/ enables any script tobecome a menu bar application. Tools are provided to make it easier tocraft these scripts.

If you havehomebrew installed, you can do:

brew cask install bitbar

Otherwisegrab the latestrelease and installit the hard way.

Open the application and choose the directory you want to be yourplugins directory. This is where your menubar scripts will go. (I use~/Library/BitBar/Plugins but you can pick any directory; just makesure it isn’t one with a gazillion files as that impacts BitBar’sperformance).

The following functions are implemented:

• add_entry: Add an entry to the menu
• applescript: Execute AppleScript and Return Results
• b64_image: Return a base64 encoded string of an image (localfilesystem or URL)
• bitbar_plugins_dir: BitBar plugins directory
• new_bitbar_script: Helper to get started with a new BitBar bitbarscript
• open_bitbar_dir: Open BitBar Plugins Directory in the Finder
• r_logo_small: Images that come with the package
• reachable: Is the internet accessible?

There are also two RStudio Addins, one with a GUI for entering in thescript metadata & starting a new BitBar {bitbar} script and one foropening up the BitBar plugins directory in the Finder.

remotes::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/bitbar.git")# orremotes::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/bitbar")# orremotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/bitbar")# orremotes::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/bitbar")# orremotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/bitbar")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the{remotes} package installed.

library(bitbar)# current versionpackageVersion("bitbar")## [1] '0.1.0'

This will open up amy-awesome-bitbar-script.R in RStudio (ifavailable) or whatever editorfile.edit() is configured to use.

new_bitbar_script(save_as= file.path(bitbar_plugins_dir(),"my-awesome-bitbar-script.R"),title=":blue_heart:",description="Example BitBar Script")

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code ofConduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by itsterms.