[R] Does R have a command for sending emails?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Fernando Saldanha wrote:

> Is there a way to have an R program send an email?

No.  There have been proposals to do this, but it is highly OS-specific, 
and also likely to hit security issues.

You could take a look at what bug.report() does (which is nothing on some 
platforms).

> Something like this:
>
> address <- 'abc at d.com'
> text <- 'This is the email body'
> send.email(address, text)


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