Hi, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Ben qant <ccqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > That fixed it!! Thank you very much! I should have thought of that.
For the sake of others that might stumble on this thread -- what fixed it, exactly? Doing paste(errs, collapse="\\n"), or the writing to a tmp file thing, or? -steve > > 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 > > -- 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 ______________________________________________ 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.