Hi Bill, That's awesome!!! That did the trick!
Thank you so much. BTW I think spotfire is an awesome visulization and analytics tool. Too bad we can't afford it in my dept. Dan -----Original Message----- From: William Dunlap [mailto:wdun...@tibco.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:18 PM To: Lopez, Dan; David Winsemius Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) Subject: RE: [R] Sending Email from R Try replacing dput(x) with capture.output(dput(x)) dput(x) prints a parsable representation of x but returns x. capture.output(y) returns what print(y) would have printed. Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Lopez, Dan > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:09 PM > To: David Winsemius > Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) > Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R > > David, > > Yes, sorry, I sent the version of this were I was playing with trying > to get two sets of text in the body. You are right: > body <- list("It works!", mime_part(iris) ) > > But that doesn't address my original problem with trying to get dput() > into email from R. I mean I can copy and paste as I usually do but > just thought there is an easy way to do it through sendmail. > > Thanks. > Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:06 PM > To: Lopez, Dan > Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) > Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R > > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Lopez, Dan wrote: > > > David > > > > Thanks for the other resources. But I think those don't solve my problem. > > > > FYI I used sendmailR:sendmail without password. > > > > This is more or less how I ended up doing it. I can send a simple > > plain email or a simple > plain email with an attachment or few attachments. Not sure if it > makes a difference but in this test I am sending to myself from within > the company > > > > I am just trying to figure out how to email the contents from > > dput(). Whenever I try it > prints it to the screen and the contents don't appear in the email at > all: body or attachment. If I try it as an attachment (that's the > mime_part()) the attachment is blank. > > > > ## Not run: > > from <- "lopez...@llnl.gov" > > to <- "lopez...@llnl.gov" > > subject <- "This email from R" > > body <- list("It works!", "mime_part(iris)") > > Shouldn't that be : > > body <- list("It works!", mime_part(iris) ) # ??? > > > > > > mailControl=list(smtpServer="thing.thing.gov") > > > > sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailContro > > l) > > ## End(Not run) > > > > Thanks. > > Dan > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:59 AM > > To: David Winsemius > > Cc: Lopez, Dan; R help (r-help@r-project.org) > > Subject: Re: [R] Sending Email from R > > > > > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:44 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > >> > >> On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Lopez, Dan wrote: > >> > >>> Hi R experts, > >>> > >>> I know how to send simple plain text message in body and how to > >>> send with > attachments. This is thanks to stackoverflow reference below. > >>> > >>> But I don't know how to send dput() output in the body of the > >>> email (or attachment) > using sendmailR. I more interested in figuring out how to include it > as part of the body of the email. > >>> > >>> Does anybody have experience on how to do this? > >>> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2885660/how-to-send-email-with-at > > tachment- > from-r-in-windows > > > >>> #?sendmailR::sendmail > >>> > >>> library(sendmailR) > >>> > >>> #set working directory > >>> setwd("C:/workingdirectorypath") > >>> > >>> #####send plain email > >>> > >>> from <- "y...@account.com" > >>> to <- "recipi...@account.com" > >>> subject <- "Email Subject" > >>> body <- "Email body." > >>> mailControl=list(smtpServer="serverinfo") > >>> > >>> sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailCont > >>> rol) > >> > >> Does this mean you get success with the simple example you posted? > > > > This might be critical. There was a 2010 posting from Barry > > Rowlingson saying that > 'sendmail' in sendmailR was unable to provide smtp-authorization. I > got an error message regarding authorization when I added my password. > > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r- > help+sendmail+authentication#query:list%3Aorg.r-project.r- > help%20sendmail%20authentication+page:1+mid:pwfqwwwumgwtcqx7+state:res > ults > > > > That thread also included Ben Bolker's offer of code in package:Rmail at: > > > > http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bolker/R/src/contrib/ > > > > > > I was able to get Lin Himmelmann's mail::sendmail function to send > > a message to > myself. Looking at the code it appears Lin has set up a PHP server and is > parsing an http: > request. It also doesn't look like it is intended to be general > solution since there is a message saying the numbers of messages are limited. > > > > -- > > > > David Winsemius > > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
