How to send HTML email using R

Question

I have searched SO and well as google and cannot seem to find a solution to my problem. I am trying to send a HTML formatted email within R using sendmailR package. The plai

Answer 1

With the mailR package (https://github.com/rpremraj/mailR), you could send HTML emails with ease as below:

send.mail(from = "sender@gmail.com",
          to = c("recipient1@gmail.com", "recipient2@gmail.com"),
          subject = "Subject of the email",
          body = "The apache logo - ",
          html = TRUE,
          smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 465, user.name = "gmail_username", passwd = "password", ssl = TRUE),
          attach.files = c("./download.log", "upload.log"),
          authenticate = TRUE,
          send = TRUE)