How to send HTML email using R

Question

I have searched SO and well as google and cannot seem to find a solution to my problem. I am trying to send a HTML formatted email within R using sendmailR package. The plai

Answer 1

I prefer to use a specialized Mail agent for this type of task than using an R package. You can for example use Mutt. Available for linux and windows.

Here I am using option -e to send a command:

writeLines(message,
           p<-pipe(paste('mutt -e ','"set content_type=text/html"',
                          from,to,' -s ', subject))
close(p)