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 are two ways to send an email via Gmail, anonymized or authenticated. Here is the code for anonymized:

library(mailR)
send.mail(from = "sender@gmail.com",
      to = c("Recipient 1 ", "recipient2@gmail.com"),
      cc = c("CC Recipient "),
      bcc = c("BCC Recipient "),
      subject = "Subject of the email",
      body = "Body of the email",
      smtp = list(host.name = "aspmx.l.google.com", port = 25),
      authenticate = FALSE,
      send = TRUE)

Make sure the recipient emails are Gmail too. It most likely goes to the spam folder in the Gmail account so make sure to mark it "not spammed".

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