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

There is a new package called emayili with two very interesting promises:

• works on all manner of SMTP servers
• has minimal dependencies (or dependencies which are easily satisfied)

It seems early stages but promising nonetheless. Sending email is as simple as:

devtools::install_github("datawookie/emayili")
library(emayili)
library(dplyr)

email <- envelope() %>%
  from("alice@yahoo.com") %>%
  to("bob@google.com") %>%
  subject("This is a plain text message!") %>%
  body("Hello!")

smtp <- server(host = "smtp.gmail.com",
               port = 465,
               username = "bob@gmail.com",
               password = "bd40ef6d4a9413de9c1318a65cbae5d7")

smtp(email, verbose = TRUE)