Sending Automated Emails from R

[Karthik]

Hi there, I am trying to send email from R to a gmail account.
Following is the code I am using and R returns an Error msg shown below.

library(mailR)
  send.mail(from= ("bbb@gmail.com"),
            to = ("<aaa@gmail.com>"),
            subject="Mail from R Trial",
            body="HelloWorld!",
            smtp=list(host.name="smtp.gmail.com",port=465,user.name="datatalks247",passwd=pass,ssl=TRUE),
            authenticate =TRUE,
            send =TRUE,
            html=TRUE,
            debug=TRUE)

ERROR MSG :
Error in send.mail(from = ("bbb@gmail.com"), to = ("aaa@gmail.com"), :
could not find function "send.mail"

Any idea to solve this? or any other alternative solution you all could suggest?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Karthik

[mattwarkentin]

Do you have the mailR package installed? Do you get an error when running library(mailR)? It seems like R can't find the send.mail() function which suggests you haven't loaded the package namespace.

I use the {gmailr} package for sending automated emails from a Gmail account, and it works very well for me. So I can suggest that package from personal experience.

[Karthik]

@mattwarkentin Thanks for the reply!.

I am trying to explore your recommended {gmailr} package. I am facing some issues.

I visited console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials ... created a project and downloaded ID in the .json format.

However, when I ran following code, I did get this error. Any idea why this happens?

use_secret_file("test3.json")

Warning message for above code:
"Use gm_auth_configure() to configure your own OAuth app. That will
dictate the app used when gm_auth() is called implicitly or explicitly to
obtain an OAuth2 token."

gm_auth_configure(path = "json stored at working directory and the path given here/id name.json")

No message on the console window and did not direct to the browser either.

test_email <- gm_mime(
  To= c("receipent1@gmail.com","receipent2@gmail.com"),
  From = "sender@gmail.com",
  subject="Hello World!",
  body="Can you hear me from R?")
send_message(test_email)  

The ERROR message as follows:
Error: Can't get Google credentials.
Are you running gmailr in a non-interactive session? Consider:

• Call gm_auth() directly with all necessary specifics.

Any idea with this errors.

Thank you in advance.