Does R have a command for sending emails?
I want to thank all who have offered help on this topic. I was able to
create a very simple email function that I have tested to work under
Windows XP Professional and R 2.1.0. It uses Blat version 1.9.4.
send.mail<-function(addr, subject, source.file) {
mail.cmd <- paste("Blat", source.file, "-subject", dQuote(subject),
"-to", addr, separator = " ", collapse = "")
system(mail.cmd, intern = FALSE)
}
The string source.file must have double backslashes instead of single
backslashes. For example:
C:\\myfolder
One must first install Blat version 1.9.4, available at
http://www.blat.net/194/.
All that is needed is to unzip the downloaded file (Blat194.zip) and
copy Blat.exe to a folder in the path. The other files inside
Blat194.zip can be discarded.
FS
On 5/10/05, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
Fernando Saldanha wrote:
Is there a way to have an R program send an email? Something like this: address <- 'abc at d.com' text <- 'This is the email body' send.email(address, text) Thanks. FS
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Under Linux/Unix you can use code such as the following. This handles
kmail and mail.
if(mailer=='kmail') {
tf <- tempfile()
cat(cmd, file=tf)
to <- paste('"', paste(to, collapse=','), '"', sep='')
if(length(cc)) cc <- paste(' -c "', paste(cc,
collapse=','),'"',sep='')
if(length(bcc)) bcc <- paste(' -b "', paste(bcc,
collapse=','),'"',sep='')
} else {
to <- paste(to, collapse=' ')
if(length(cc)) cc <- paste(paste(' -c', cc), collapse='')
if(length(bcc)) bcc <- paste(paste(' -b', bcc),collapse='')
}
cmd <- if(mailer=='kmail') paste('kmail -s "', title, '"', cc,
bcc, ' --msg ', tf, ' ', to, sep='') else
paste('echo -e "', cmd, '" | mail -s "',
title, ' Reports"', cc, bcc, ' ', to, sep='')
system(cmd)
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Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University