When creating an Outlook email in r, how do add new lines to to the body of the email?

Question

Below is the code created to send an email via r.

 OutApp <- COMCreate("Outlook.Application")
 outMail = OutApp$CreateItem(0)
 outMail[["To"]] = "personperson@gmail.com"
 outMail[["subject"]] = "SUBJECT"
 outMail[["body"]] = paste("Hello","Below are the contents of the email")
 outMail$Send()

The output is :

Hello Below are the contents of the email

The output should be:

Hello

Below are the contents of the email

Thank you for the help.

Check if this answer help https://stackoverflow.com/a/4072218/5184851 — see-king_of_knowledge, Jul 17 '18 at 14:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '18 at 14:30

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if you have two elements

a <- "hello"
b <- "World"

and you need to print in two lines, you can use writeLines with paste:

> writeLines(paste(a, b, sep = "\n"))
hello
World

answered Jul 17 '18 at 14:30

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When creating an Outlook email in r, how do add new lines to to the body of the email?

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