On 10-May-05 Fernando Saldanha wrote:
> Is there a way to have an R program send an email?
>
> Something like this:
>
> address <- '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> text <- 'This is the email body'
> send.email(address, text)
As Brian Ripley said, this is highly OS-specific!
On the other hand, studying 'bug.report' may be excessive.
*Provided* you are using a Unixoid system (Unix, Linux,
and as far as I know Mac OS X), you will almost certainly
have the 'mail' command which can be readily used for a
simple email such as the one you describe above.
At the system level, a possible command could be
mail -s "subject of mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOT
"This is the email body"
EOT
so all you need is an R function which binds all these
elements together.
For example, the following works on my Linux system:
send.mail<-function(addr,subject="Mail from R",
text="empty text"){
mail.cmd<-paste("mail ",
"-s \"",subject,"\" ",
addr,
" << EOT &\n",
text,"\n",
"EOT",
sep="",collapse="")
system(mail.cmd,intern=FALSE)
}
For example, with:
send.mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
subject="Message from R: At Last!",
text="Good Morning!\nI've been busy all night.\nIt's finished."
)
after a minute or two for delivery I get the following message
delivered on my machine:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 10 09:50:27 2005
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:49:50 +0100
From: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Message from R: At Last!
Good Morning!
I've been busy all night.
It's finished.
I've specified "intern=FALSE" explicitly (though it is the
default), since if you set it TRUE (e.g. in order for R to
verify the sending) then R will hang until it receives the
feedback from the command (the "&" in "EOT &\n" puts the job
in the background so there is no delay).
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).
Best wishes,
Ted.
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