This function creates an ical file based on a data frame with mixed events. Export as .ics file using `calendar::ic_write()`.
Usage
write_ical(
df,
date = "date",
date.end = NA,
title = "title",
time.start = "start",
time.end = "end",
place = NA,
place.def = NA,
time.def = "10:00:00",
time.dur = 60,
descr = NA,
link = NA,
t.zone = "CET"
)Arguments
- df
A data frame with the calendar data
- date
The name of the event date column in the data frame
- date.end
The name of the end date column in the data frame
- title
The name of the title column in the data frame
- time.start
The name of the start time column in the data frame
- time.end
The name of the end time column in the data frame
- place
The name of the place column in the data frame
- place.def
Default location to use when place is NA
- time.def
Default start time to use when time.start is NA
- time.dur
Default duration of the event in minutes, if time.end is NA
- descr
Name of description/notes column if any.
- link
Name of link column, if any.
- t.zone
A character string of time zone for events. The string must be a time zone that is recognized by the user's OS.
See also
[calendar package](https://github.com/ATFutures/calendar/) [icalendar standard webpage](https://icalendar.org)
Examples
df <- data.frame(
date = c("2020-02-10", "2020-02-11"),
date.end = c("2020-02-13",NA),
title = c("Conference", "Lunch"),
start = c("12:00:00", NA),
time.end = c("13:00:00", NA),
note = c("Hi there","Remember to come"),
link = c("https://icalendar.org","https://agdamsbo.github.io/stRoke/")
)
write_ical(
df,
date = "date",
date.end = "date.end",
title = "title",
time.start = "start",
time.end = "time.end",
place.def = "Conference Room",
descr = "note",
link = "link"
)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 7
#> SUMMARY DTSTART DTEND UID LOCATION URL
#> <chr> <dttm> <dttm> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Conference 2020-02-10 12:00:00 2020-02-13 13:00:00 ical-706b72… Confere… http…
#> 2 Lunch 2020-02-11 10:00:00 2020-02-11 11:00:00 ical-0b7a8a… Confere… http…
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: DESCRIPTION <chr>