Send mail in r

In R, you can send an email using the sendmail package. Here's an example of how to do it:

First, you need to install the sendmail package if you haven't already:

install.packages("sendmail")

Then, you can use the sendmail function to send an email. Here's an example:

library(sendmail)

# Set the recipient's email address
to <- "[email protected]"

# Set the sender's email address
from <- "[email protected]"

# Set the subject of the email
subject <- "Test email from R"

# Set the body of the email
body <- "This is a test email sent from R."

# Send the email
sendmail(from = from, to = to, subject = subject, body = body)

This will send an email to the recipient with the subject "Test email from R" and the body "This is a test email sent from R."

You can also add attachments to the email by using the attach argument:

# Add an attachment
attach <- "path/to/attachment.txt"

# Send the email with attachment
sendmail(from = from, to = to, subject = subject, body = body, attach = attach)

This will send an email to the recipient with the attachment "path/to/attachment.txt".

Note that you need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) installed on your system and configured to send emails. The sendmail package uses the mail command to send emails, so you need to have the mail command installed and configured on your system.

Also, you can use other packages like gmailr or smtp to send emails from R, but sendmail is a simple and easy to use package.

You can also use the mailR package which is a more advanced package that allows you to send emails with more features such as HTML emails, attachments, and more.

install.packages("mailR")
library(mailR)

# Set the recipient's email address
to <- "[email protected]"

# Set the sender's email address
from <- "[email protected]"

# Set the subject of the email
subject <- "Test email from R"

# Set the body of the email
body <- "This is a test email sent from R."

# Send the email
send.mail(from = from, to = to, subject = subject, body = body, 
          smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", 
                      port = 587, 
                      user.name = "[email protected]", 
                      passwd = "your_password", 
                      tls = TRUE))

Please note that you need to replace the [email protected] and your_password with your actual Gmail email and password.

Also, you can use the rmail package which is a simple package that allows you to send emails from R.

install.packages("rmail")
library(rmail)

# Set the recipient's email address
to <- "[email protected]"

# Set the sender's email address
from <- "[email protected]"

# Set the subject of the email
subject <- "Test email from R"

# Set the body of the email
body <- "This is a test email sent from R."

# Send the email
rmail(to = to, from = from, subject = subject, body = body)

Please note that you need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) installed on your system and configured to send emails.