Send a text message from R

Question

I know you can send an email from R with sendMail, and you can tweet with twitteR. Is there any way to send a text message from an R script?

Answer 1

All of the major US cell phone carriers allow you to send text messages using the standard email (SMTP) protocol. You can send a text message by sending an email to the phone. Here are the different email domains for the different carriers:

http://www.emailtextmessages.com/