That fixed it!! Thank you very much! I should have thought of that. Thanks again,
Ben On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Steve Lianoglou < mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ben qant <ccqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've posted something similar under a different subject and never > received a > > solution. Trying again with (hopefully) a better description. > > > > Objective: Send a matrix of string data in an email message. The message > > must have authentication and be sent via an R script. > > > > I'm almost there! > > > > Here is where I am at: > > I collect long error message lines in 'errs', which is a matrix. > > (I might collect this into a list, but that's just a matter of style) > > > > Then I collapse them into a character vector via: > > > > errs = paste(errs, collapse = "") > > > > Then I send that in a email via rJython. The message is sent to an > Microsoft > > Outlook address like this: > > > > mail = c( ....etc... > > paste("msg = MIMEText('",errs,"')",sep=""), > > ...etc....) > > > > ...etc... [the rest of the rJython stuff to send a message omitted here] > > > > jython.exec(rJython,mail) > > > > The problem: The issue is that the message wraps the text in the body of > the > > message so that the message just looks like one big line of text which > makes > > it very difficult to read (aka is not acceptable). > > > > Notes: > > 1) The message must have authentication; therefore, I am using rJython. > (My > > understanding is that there is no R way to send an email message with > > authentication.) > > 2) I have to receive the message in Outlook. > > 3) When I do errs = paste(errs, collapse = "\n"), and pass that as the > > message text, rJython gives me an error: > > Error in ls(envir = envir, all.names = private) : > > invalid 'envir' argument > > It's hard to imagine why this would happen. using `paste(errs, > collapse="")` vs. `paste(errs, collapse="\n")` will provide you with > one character vector/string, so I've got to believe the problem is > somewhere else. > > Just a stab in the dark, but does `paste(errs, collapse="\\n")` give > you problems? > > What if you take your `errs = paste(errs, collapse="\n")` and call > `writeLines` on `errs` to a tmp file that you provide the path for to > rJython, which then reads the file and append into a message. > > Also -- if you want to be reading the file "normally" on windows, > shouldn't you be using windows line endings (I think "\r\n"), or does > outlook recognize "\n" as a new line (I'm imagining if you do get the > whole thing to work, outlook might still just show you one long line > since "\n" alone isn't recognized as a newline command on windows > (last time I checked)). > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.