Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
Lapointe, Pierre wrote: This is excellent. It works great even though I'm on Win2k and behind a firewall. I just have one question though, I don't use a function because I sometimes need to add people to my distribtion list. In R, my system(paste()) string is very long and when I try put an enter

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Philippe Grosjean
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

RE: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Ted Harding
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

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
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/

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread A.J. Rossini
On 5/10/05, Barry Rowlingson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Philippe Grosjean wrote: 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

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
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) Thanks. FS __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Fernando Saldanha
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,

RE: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread OlsenN
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fernando Saldanha Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:28 AM To: Submissions to R help Subject: Re: [R] 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

[R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-10 Thread Lapointe, Pierre
This is excellent. It works great even though I'm on Win2k and behind a firewall. I just have one question though, I don't use a function because I sometimes need to add people to my distribtion list. In R, my system(paste()) string is very long and when I try put an enter so it fits in my Rgui

[R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-09 Thread Fernando Saldanha
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) Thanks. FS __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

2005-05-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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).