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How to send email from R and windows 7

I'm trying to send an email from R. I'm running windows 7 and it does not recognize the sendmailR package. Please help!!

Error in library(sendmailR) : there is no package called ‘sendmailR’

library(sendmailR) Error in library(sendmailR) : there is no package called ‘sendmailR’ library(mail) Error in library(mail) : there is no package called ‘mail’

Thank you for your time.

Solution

  • If you are off and running, great. But this might also assist. A very helpful person sent me this description for how to send emails with R. His last name was Kristjborn, from Sweden, but I can't otherwise credit him.

    Steps needed, after signing up at postmarkapp.com and getting Hadley's script at https://gist.github.com/hadley/5707759

    1. Copy your API key from postmarkapp.com (in Credentials tab under your server name)

    2. In R, write:

      Sys.setenv(POSTMARKAPP_API_KEY= your-copied-api-key-here) Sys.setenv(POSTMARKAPP_API_KEY= “xxxx”) # with quotes

    3. In the file from which you want to send the email, use the following code:

      source('../postmarkapp.r') #or the path to your postmarkapp.r wherever you store it

      source("C:/Users/R/Documents/R/R Scripts/sendgmailwithpostmarkfromHadleygist.R")

      mailtext <- "Good morning, \nThis should be sending you emails from R in no time. \nBest regards, \nSender"

      send_email(to = '...', from = '...', subject = '...', body = mailtext, attachments = 'path-to-file') # or skip attachments

    This should work. However, if the code fails in sourcing the postmarkapp, it is probably due to dependent Libraries. The app depends on:

    library(base64enc) library(RJSONIO) library(httr)

    If any of these are not installed you need to do so. Note that httr is stored on github which needs to be installed using install_github from the devtools package: http://www.rstudio.com/projects/devtools/