{"id":833,"date":"2015-03-26T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.uc.edu\/~yaozo\/wordpress\/?p=833"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:03:22","slug":"how-to-send-email-with-attachment-from-r-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/26\/how-to-send-email-with-attachment-from-r-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"how to send email with attachment from R in windows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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sendmailR works for me on Windows 7. I referenced http:\/\/cran.es.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/sendmailR\/sendmailR.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

smtpServer= info for Outlook 2010 is in File -> Account Settings -> Account Settings -> double click your account -> text in “Server” box<\/p>\n

library<\/span>(<\/span>sendmailR<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n#set working directory<\/span>\nsetwd<\/span>(<\/span>\"C:\/workingdirectorypath\"<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n#####send plain email<\/span>\n\nfrom <\/span><-<\/span> \"you@account.com\"<\/span>\nto <\/span><-<\/span> \"recipient@account.com\"<\/span>\nsubject <\/span><-<\/span> \"Email Subject\"<\/span>\nbody <\/span><-<\/span> \"Email body.\"<\/span>                     \nmailControl<\/span>=<\/span>list<\/span>(<\/span>smtpServer<\/span>=<\/span>\"serverinfo\"<\/span>)<\/span>\n\nsendmail<\/span>(<\/span>from<\/span>=<\/span>from<\/span>,<\/span>to<\/span>=<\/span>to<\/span>,<\/span>subject<\/span>=<\/span>subject<\/span>,<\/span>msg<\/span>=<\/span>body<\/span>,<\/span>control<\/span>=<\/span>mailControl<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n#####send same email with attachment<\/span>\n\n#needs full path if not in working directory<\/span>\nattachmentPath <\/span><-<\/span> \"subfolder\/log.txt\"<\/span>\n\n#same as attachmentPath if using working directory<\/span>\nattachmentName <\/span><-<\/span> \"log.txt\"<\/span>\n\n#key part for attachments, put the body and the mime_part in a list for msg<\/span>\nattachmentObject <\/span><-<\/span> mime_part<\/span>(<\/span>x<\/span>=<\/span>attachmentPath<\/span>,<\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>attachmentName<\/span>)<\/span>\nbodyWithAttachment <\/span><-<\/span> list<\/span>(<\/span>body<\/span>,<\/span>attachmentObject<\/span>)<\/span>\n\nsendmail<\/span>(<\/span>from<\/span>=<\/span>from<\/span>,<\/span>to<\/span>=<\/span>to<\/span>,<\/span>subject<\/span>=<\/span>subject<\/span>,<\/span>msg<\/span>=<\/span>bodyWithAttachment<\/span>,<\/span>control<\/span>=<\/span>mailControl<\/span>)<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n
In addition, multiple files can be sent by adding another mime_part to the msg list as follows (I also condensed it):<\/p>\n
attachmentObject <\/span><-<\/span> mime_part<\/span>(<\/span>x<\/span>=<\/span>\"subfolder\/log.txt\"<\/span>,<\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>\"log.txt\"<\/span>)<\/span>\nattachmentObject2 <\/span><-<\/span> mime_part<\/span>(<\/span>x<\/span>=<\/span>\"subfolder\/log2.txt\"<\/span>,<\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>\"log2.txt\"<\/span>)<\/span>\nbodyWithAttachment <\/span><-<\/span> list<\/span>(<\/span>body<\/span>,<\/span>attachmentObject<\/span>,<\/span>attachmentObject2<\/span>)<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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sendmailR works for me on Windows 7. I referenced http:\/\/cran.es.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/sendmailR\/sendmailR.pdf smtpServer= info for Outlook 2010 is in File -> Account Settings -> Account Settings ->… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}