[R] Issue with using rcom on windows 7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is far from complete, and 'rcom' is not part of R (it might be a 
contributed package of that name).  If you mean that contributed 
package, please follow the posting guide and ask its maintainer for 
advice (although the question seems to be about Windows, not R).

Note that R itself has a create.post() function that usually does a good 
enough job of sending emails.

On 05/03/2012 09:37, Jadhav, Alok wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I am setting up my R environment on windows 7 for the first time. I am
> not able to send emails from my R sessions. I am having problem in
> creating outlook com object to send emails. Same code works fine from my
> windows xp setup.
>
> Following is the code
>
> (If outlook is already running on PC)
>
> x<- outlook()
> mail<- x$CreateItem(0)
>
> Mail object is NULL in above case.
>
> If outlook is not running, then mail object is created properly. But
> still the mail is not sent. I think this is because the port 25 is not
> open by default on the workstation as per the admin policies.  I will
> ask the admin to open the port 25 for me and test it, but I cannot rely
> on the fact that outlook is open or closed on PC. Why mail object is not
> created in first case. Is there any setup required for windows 7 env?
>
> Regards,
> Alok
>
>
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