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Message-ID: <42807E21.6020407@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-05-10T09:25:53Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: Does R have a command for sending emails?
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.050510100131.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

> Hoping this helps! (Of course, if you're not a unixoid, this
> is probably no use to you at all, and I have no idea how to
> do anything similar in Windows).

  How about an R package to talk to google's gmail service, perhaps 
leveraging an existing API, such as:

http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/

  this is written in pure python, so not only is it cross-platform but 
it should be possible to write one in pure R using HTTP calls and the like.

  you could then do statistical analysis of your gmail spam purely in R.

  or am I now getting too silly?

Baz