[R] eMail results out of R

[Stéphane Dray]

I did it a long time ago, so I do not remember why I have to use 
exim4... sorry. mail did not work alone.. that is why I use exim4.  
Perhaps a simpler solution exists.

Cheers

(Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 12-Jul-07 16:10:46, Stéphane Dray wrote:
>   
>> Here is a small function that I used on Debian. It requires exim4 :
>>
>> send.mail<-function(addr='dray at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr',subject='A 
>> message from R',
>>                     text=paste("I have finished to work 
>> ",Sys.time(),coll="")){
>>     # send an email
>>     # it requires the reconfiguration of exim4
>>     # you have to connect as root and
>>     # then type dpkg-reconfigure exim4config
>>     
>
> I'm a bit puzzled by this. On any Unix/Linux system (unless
> something has changed very recently which I haven't heard about),
> the 'mail' command simply works, for any user (without having
> to become root); does not require exim4 (or any particular version
> of any particular mail agent--so long as something has to be set up
> so that email can be sent at all), and (for the purpose of using
> 'mail' from R) does not require exim4 or any other mail agent to
> be re-configured. The email will be sent "From:" the user who
> is running R.
>
> In the example I posted just now, I just used 'mail' in R's
> system() command without doing anything special. The mail transfer
> agent in my case is 'sendmail', but it's a standard configuration
> and nothing special has been done.
>
>
>
>   
>>     mail.cmd<-paste("mail ",
>>                     "-s \"",subject,"\" ",
>>                     addr,
>>                     " << EOT &\n",
>>                     text,"\n",
>>                     "EOT",
>>                     sep="",collapse="")
>>      system(mail.cmd,intern=FALSE)
>>   }
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Romain Francois wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is a paper in the April 2007 issue of R News that might be of
>>> help 
>>> here.
>>> http://##cran mirror##/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-1.pdf
>>>
>>> Romain
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On 7/12/2007 9:52 AM, thomas.schwander at mvv.de wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I did my homework and read the posting guideline :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to eMail the results of a computing automatically. So I get
>>>>> the results (the parameters of a garch process) and I want to eMail
>>>>> them to another person. How can I do that?
>>>>>     
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> This will depend on the system you're using.  If the command
>>>> "emailit" 
>>>> would work from the command line on your system, then
>>>>
>>>> system("emailit")
>>>>
>>>> should work from within R.  Writing that command is the hard part, of
>>>> course.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> -- 
>> Stéphane DRAY (dray at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr )
>> Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - Lyon I
>> 43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
>> Tel: 33 4 72 43 27 57       Fax: 33 4 72 43 13 88
>> http://biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/~dray/
>>
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-- 
Stéphane DRAY (dray at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr )
Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - Lyon I
43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Tel: 33 4 72 43 27 57       Fax: 33 4 72 43 13 88
http://biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/~dray/