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How can I send emails in R via Outlook?
All the examples of sendmailR use the gmail server, but I cannot do that.
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R has a package for sending emails from Microsoft Outlook as well.
Delay the delivery of a messageWhile composing a message, select the More options arrow from the Tags group in the Ribbon. Under Delivery options, select the Do not deliver before check box, and then click the delivery date and time you want. Click Close. When you're done composing your email message, select Send.
allows you to create and send e-mails using R. It works similarly to the Shiny package, but instead of writing R code to create an interactive application, you write R code to create an HTML e-mail that can be rendered across a wide variety of e-mail providers. Once you’ve programmatically created an HTML e-mail,
You can use RDCOMClient package to access to COM objects from within R. You can easily access the Application Object (Outlook) and configure it. Here a simple example of sending an email: Of course, this assumes that you have already install outlook and configure it to send/receive your emails.
You can use RDCOMClient package to access to COM objects from within R. You can easily access to Application Object (Outlook) and configure it to send your emails. Here a simple example that show how to send and email: Of course, this assumes that you have already install outlook and configure it to send/receive your emails.
But the most interesting one for me is to send email. To do that, start by creating an email object using the create_mail () method of your ms_outlook object, such as: When you run code creating an email object, a draft email should be saved in your Outlook Drafts folder.
You can use RDCOMClient package to access to COM objects from within R. You can easily access the Application Object (Outlook) and configure it. Here a simple example of sending an email:
library(RDCOMClient) ## init com api OutApp <- COMCreate("Outlook.Application") ## create an email outMail = OutApp$CreateItem(0) ## configure email parameter outMail[["To"]] = "[email protected]" outMail[["subject"]] = "some subject" outMail[["body"]] = "some body" ## send it outMail$Send() Of course, this assumes that you have already install outlook and configure it to send/receive your emails. Adding attachment is quite simple also:
outMail[["Attachments"]]$Add(path_to_attch_file) sending on behalf of secondary mailbox:
outMail[["SentOnBehalfOfName"]] = "[email protected]" It is possible to send emails in R via Outlook. sendmailR works for me on Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. I referenced http://cran.es.r-project.org/web/packages/sendmailR/sendmailR.pdf
smtpServer= info for Outlook 2010 is in File -> Account Settings -> Account Settings -> double click your account -> text in "Server" box
library(sendmailR) #set working directory setwd("C:/workingdirectorypath") #####send plain email from <- "[email protected]" to <- "[email protected]" subject <- "Email Subject" body <- "Email body." mailControl=list(smtpServer="serverinfo") sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailControl) #####send same email with attachment #needs full path if not in working directory attachmentPath <- "subfolder/log.txt" #same as attachmentPath if using working directory attachmentName <- "log.txt" #key part for attachments, put the body and the mime_part in a list for msg attachmentObject <- mime_part(x=attachmentPath,name=attachmentName) bodyWithAttachment <- list(body,attachmentObject) sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=bodyWithAttachment,control=mailControl) In addition, multiple files can be sent by adding another mime_part to the msg list as follows (I also condensed it):
attachmentObject <- mime_part(x="subfolder/log.txt",name="log.txt") attachmentObject2 <- mime_part(x="subfolder/log2.txt",name="log2.txt") bodyWithAttachment <- list(body,attachmentObject,attachmentObject2) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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