[R] Sending Email from R

[William Dunlap]

Try replacing
   dput(x)
with
   capture.output(dput(x))

dput(x) prints a parsable representation of x but returns x.  capture.output(y) returns
what print(y) would have printed.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Lopez, Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:09 PM
> To: David Winsemius
> Cc: R help (r-help at r-project.org)
> Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R
> 
> David,
> 
> Yes, sorry, I sent the version of this were I was playing with trying to get two sets of text
> in the body. You are right:
> body <- list("It works!", mime_part(iris) )
> 
> But that doesn't address my original problem with trying to get dput() into email from R. I
> mean I can copy and paste as I usually do but just thought there is an easy way to do it
> through sendmail.
> 
> Thanks.
> Dan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:06 PM
> To: Lopez, Dan
> Cc: R help (r-help at r-project.org)
> Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R
> 
> 
> On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Lopez, Dan wrote:
> 
> > David
> >
> > Thanks for the other resources. But I think those don't solve my problem.
> >
> > FYI I used sendmailR:sendmail without password.
> >
> > This is more or less how I ended up doing it. I can send a simple plain email or a simple
> plain email with an attachment or few attachments. Not sure if it makes a difference but
> in this test I am sending to myself from within the company
> >
> > I am just trying to figure out how to email the contents from dput(). Whenever I try it
> prints it to the screen and the contents don't appear in the email at all: body or
> attachment. If I try it as an attachment (that's the mime_part()) the attachment is blank.
> >
> > ## Not run:
> > from <- "lopez235 at llnl.gov"
> > to <- "lopez235 at llnl.gov"
> > subject <- "This email from R"
> > body <- list("It works!", "mime_part(iris)")
> 
> Shouldn't that be :
> 
>  body <- list("It works!", mime_part(iris) )   # ???
> 
> 
> >
> > mailControl=list(smtpServer="thing.thing.gov")
> >
> > sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailControl)
> > ## End(Not run)
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:59 AM
> > To: David Winsemius
> > Cc: Lopez, Dan; R help (r-help at r-project.org)
> > Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R
> >
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:44 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Lopez, Dan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi R experts,
> >>>
> >>> I know how to send simple plain text message in body and how to send with
> attachments. This is thanks to stackoverflow reference below.
> >>>
> >>> But I don't know how to send dput() output in the body of the email (or attachment)
> using sendmailR. I more interested in figuring out how to include it as part of the body of
> the email.
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody have experience on how to do this?
> >>>
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2885660/how-to-send-email-with-attachment-
> from-r-in-windows
> >
> >>> #?sendmailR::sendmail
> >>>
> >>> library(sendmailR)
> >>>
> >>> #set working directory
> >>> setwd("C:/workingdirectorypath")
> >>>
> >>> #####send plain email
> >>>
> >>> from <- "you at account.com"
> >>> to <- "recipient at account.com"
> >>> subject <- "Email Subject"
> >>> body <- "Email body."
> >>> mailControl=list(smtpServer="serverinfo")
> >>>
> >>> sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailControl)
> >>
> >> Does this mean you get success with the simple example you posted?
> >
> > This might be critical. There was a 2010 posting from Barry Rowlingson saying that
> 'sendmail' in sendmailR was unable to provide smtp-authorization. I got an error
> message regarding authorization when I added my password.
> >
> > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-
> help+sendmail+authentication#query:list%3Aorg.r-project.r-
> help%20sendmail%20authentication+page:1+mid:pwfqwwwumgwtcqx7+state:results
> >
> > That thread also included Ben Bolker's offer of code in package:Rmail at:
> >
> > http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bolker/R/src/contrib/
> >
> >
> > I was able to get Lin Himmelmann's  mail::sendmail function to send a message to
> myself. Looking at the code it appears Lin has set up a PHP server and is parsing an http:
> request. It also doesn't look like it is intended to be general solution since there is a
> message saying the numbers of messages are limited.
> >
> > --
> >
> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
> 
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
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