[R] Attaching a pdf file to an email generated with sendmailR?

[Bos, Roger]

Michael,

I use sendmailR to attached a file to an email and it does work.  I remember there was something non-intuitive when I was figuring it out.  I use both the attachPath and the attachName.  The attachPath has the full path including the filename and the attachName just has the filename.  I don't why it wants the filename in both parameters, but it works for me.

emailR(to = "someone at email.com", subject = "Morning Notes", msg = msg, attachPath = newwd %+% fnameNotes, attachName = fnameNotes)

> fnameNotes
[1] "morningNotes_20151009.html"
> newwd %+% fnameNotes
[1] "//rinnycs0051/research/R_HOME_Research/Markdown/morningNotes/morningNotes_20151009.html"
> fnameNotes
[1] "morningNotes_20151009.html"

Thanks,

Roger







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-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Ashton
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 5:24 PM
To: Frans Marcelissen
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Attaching a pdf file to an email generated with sendmailR?

No particular reason for sendmailR...I will try mailR and thanks!



On Oct 8, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Frans Marcelissen <fransiepansiekevertje at gmail.com<mailto:fransiepansiekevertje at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Michael,
I don't know whether there is a particulal reason for using sendmailR, but I use mailR for this without any problem.
mailR::send.mail(from, to, subject = "", body = "", encoding = "iso-8859-1",
  html = FALSE, inline = FALSE, smtp = list(), authenticate = FALSE,
  send = TRUE, attach.files = NULL, debug = FALSE, ...)

If you use an external smtp server, enter login name and password in parameter smtp as follows:
smtp = list(host.name<http://host.name> = "smtp.XXXXX", port = XXXXX, user.name<http://user.name> = "XXXXX", passwd = "XXXXX", ssl = XXXXX)

2015-10-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Michael Ashton <m.ashton at enduringinvestments.com<mailto:m.ashton at enduringinvestments.com>>:
For some time I have been using sendmailR to generate a simple message when a report was done running.

Recently, I started adding a couple of pertinent statistics in the body of the email.

Now, I've finally decided that what the heck, I ought to simply attach the report itself to the email. The report is generated as a pdf file.

I can't seem to get this to work in any simple way with mime_part; if I specify a path to the file it simply assumes that "P:/blablabla/thefile.pdf" is a message I want to put in a text file attachment.

I assume I am doing something incorrectly and likely something simple. But maybe there is a clever trick I am missing. My send line is simply:

sendmail(from,to,subject,body,control=list(smtpServer="mail.optonline.net<http://mail.optonline.net>"))

where body is something like this:

body <- list("Here's your stupid file",mime_part(x="P:/partofpath/ thefile.pdf",name="file.pdf"))

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,

Mike

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