Hi Harold,

I have not used it recently, but it seems promising:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sendmailR/index.html

HTH,
Jorge


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Doran, Harold <> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever written a function that sends an
> email to you when an R process has finished? For instance, I often work with
> very large data sets and certain tasks (e.g., merging records, lmer runs)
> can take a long time and I find myself constantly looking over to see if R
> is done.
>
> But, it would just be neat if there was a way R could send me an email
> alerting me that a process has finished. I'm guessing this could be made
> possible (on Windows) via system() or shell().
>
> Just curious if anyone has thought of this.
>
> Harold
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