Does R have a command for sending emails?
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Fernando Saldanha wrote:
Is there a way to have an R program send an email?
No. There have been proposals to do this, but it is highly OS-specific, and also likely to hit security issues. You could take a look at what bug.report() does (which is nothing on some platforms).
...but on most, if not all systems, you can use command-line applications to send emails... and since R can start command-line applications with system(), you should get that functionnality easily "incorporated" into R. Just use Google a little bit! Best, Philippe Grosjean
Something like this: address <- 'abc at d.com' text <- 'This is the email body' send.email(address, text)