I am trying to pull stats from the gmail API using R. I am using gmailr package. I am able to send an email from R but that's about where it ends. I was using these links to try to figure this out but it does not seem to be working: https://github.com/jennybc/send-email-with-r/#prep-work-related-to-gmail-and-the-gmailr-package and https://github.com/alkashef/gmailstats
All I really want to see is how many daily emails are received, and if possible, break it down by the hour.
Any assistance in this would be wonderful.
Thanks
You could try
library(gmailr)
clientid <- "...."
key <- "...."
token <- gmail_auth("read_only", clientid, key)
msgs <- messages(search = "before:2018-01-01 after:2016-01-01", include_spam_trash = FALSE)
msgs_meta <- lapply(id(msgs), message, format = "metadata")
dates <- lubridate::dmy_hms(sapply(msgs_meta, date))
addmargins(table(as.Date(dates), factor(format(dates, "%H"), levels = 0:23)))
# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Sum
# 2016-11-10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
# 2016-11-11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
# ...
# 2017-12-27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
# Sum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 5 1 0 0 4 3 2 2 0 1 22 19 3 77
The explanations are pretty much found in the links that you provided yourself.