I did it a long time ago, so I do not remember why I have to use exim4... sorry. mail did not work alone.. that is why I use exim4. Perhaps a simpler solution exists.
Cheers (Ted Harding) wrote: > On 12-Jul-07 16:10:46, Stéphane Dray wrote: > >> Here is a small function that I used on Debian. It requires exim4 : >> >> send.mail<-function(addr='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',subject='A >> message from R', >> text=paste("I have finished to work >> ",Sys.time(),coll="")){ >> # send an email >> # it requires the reconfiguration of exim4 >> # you have to connect as root and >> # then type dpkg-reconfigure exim4config >> > > I'm a bit puzzled by this. On any Unix/Linux system (unless > something has changed very recently which I haven't heard about), > the 'mail' command simply works, for any user (without having > to become root); does not require exim4 (or any particular version > of any particular mail agent--so long as something has to be set up > so that email can be sent at all), and (for the purpose of using > 'mail' from R) does not require exim4 or any other mail agent to > be re-configured. The email will be sent "From:" the user who > is running R. > > In the example I posted just now, I just used 'mail' in R's > system() command without doing anything special. The mail transfer > agent in my case is 'sendmail', but it's a standard configuration > and nothing special has been done. > > > > >> mail.cmd<-paste("mail ", >> "-s \"",subject,"\" ", >> addr, >> " << EOT &\n", >> text,"\n", >> "EOT", >> sep="",collapse="") >> system(mail.cmd,intern=FALSE) >> } >> >> Cheers, >> >> Romain Francois wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> There is a paper in the April 2007 issue of R News that might be of >>> help >>> here. >>> http://##cran mirror##/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-1.pdf >>> >>> Romain >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 7/12/2007 9:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> I did my homework and read the posting guideline :-) >>>>> >>>>> I want to eMail the results of a computing automatically. So I get >>>>> the results (the parameters of a garch process) and I want to eMail >>>>> them to another person. How can I do that? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> This will depend on the system you're using. If the command >>>> "emailit" >>>> would work from the command line on your system, then >>>> >>>> system("emailit") >>>> >>>> should work from within R. Writing that command is the hard part, of >>>> course. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>>> >>>> >> -- >> Stéphane DRAY ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) >> Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - Lyon I >> 43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France >> Tel: 33 4 72 43 27 57 Fax: 33 4 72 43 13 88 >> http://biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/~dray/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 12-Jul-07 Time: 18:03:20 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > > -- Stéphane DRAY ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - Lyon I 43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Tel: 33 4 72 43 27 57 Fax: 33 4 72 43 13 88 http://biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/~dray/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.