how do you send email from R

Question

I want to send emails from R. This is what I have so far:

library(sendmailR)


from <- \"eamil@example.com\"
to <- \"email2@example.com\"
subject <-         


        

Answer 1

I found the simplest way in Ubuntu is to run the one liner Terminal command in R. No need for password.

try(system("mutt -s 'Run is complete.' youremail@anymail.com < /dev/null", intern = TRUE))

You will need to install mutt in terminal before this.

Answer 2

If you need to be able to use an smtp server with authentication you can use the mailR package.

For example using gmail's smtp server:

library(mailR)
sender <- "SENDER@gmail.com"
recipients <- c("RECIPIENT@gmail.com")
send.mail(from = sender,
          to = recipients,
          subject = "Subject of the email",
          body = "Body of the email",
          smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 465, 
                      user.name = "YOURUSERNAME@gmail.com",            
                      passwd = "YOURPASSWORD", ssl = TRUE),
          authenticate = TRUE,
          send = TRUE)