email_template: Send an email template.

In rjournal/rj: Tools for managing the R journal

Send an email template.

Description

Interpolate article values into a template, and create a new (unsent) email in your default mail client. The email is created using browseURL and the mailto protocol, so it must be relatively brief.

Usage

email_template(article, template)

Arguments

article	An article id, e.g. "2013-01"
template	The name of a template (without extension) found in inst/templates.

Text format

The template should be divided into header and body with ---. The header should contain fields and values separated by : - only a limited

Template parameters

The templates use whisker to insert template values. These have the form {{field_name}}. You can use any field from the description as well as the following special fields:

• name: the name of the first author

• email: email address of first author

• editor: name of editor

• me: your name, as determine by envvar RJ_NAME

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