send_gmail: Send an email

In kbroman/mygmailR: Send myself email from R

Description

Send an email, using google mail info from a private file

Usage

send_gmail(subject = "", body = "", to=NULL, body_sep = "\\n",
  file_private = ".gmail_private", dir_private = NULL)

Arguments

subject	Character string with subject for the email (Can't include single-quotes.)
body	Character string or vector of character strings, with the body of the email; if it's a vector, it's combined with collapse=body_sep (default = "\n"). (Contents can't include single-quotes, and you need to double-backslashed the backslashes.)
to	Character string with email address of recipient; if NULL, send to self (taken from private info)
body_sep	Character string for combining elements in the input body.
file_private	Character string with file name containing the private information.
dir_private	The directory containing file. If NULL, we use the user's home directory "~". Use "" if the file argument includes the directory.

Details

Uses gmail address and password information in the ~/.gmail_private file (or another file, specified with dir_private and file_private. This should contain records gmail, password, and text, and (optionally) to.

Email will be sent from the address defined in the private file as gmail. If to is defined in that file, it is used as the default "to" email address; otherwise, gmail is used as both the "from" and the "to" addresses. You can specify a different recipient with the 'to' argument to the function.

Value

Returns value from gmail.

See Also

send_text

Examples

## Not run: 
send_gmail("R message", "R process done")
send_gmail("R message", "R process done", to="[e-mail]")

## End(Not run)

kbroman/mygmailR documentation built on Oct. 22, 2019, 11:17 a.m.