Send a text message from R

I always struggled to get my mail configured correctly to send an email from R. But if you are on a Mac and use Mac Messages, you can send a text using Messages with an AppleScript.

So run the following code in R right in your script:

send_text = function(message){
    system(paste('osascript -e \'tell application "Messages"\' -e \'send "', message, '" to buddy "555-555-5555" of (service 1 whose service type is iMessage)\' -e \'end tell\''))
}

Just change the number to the phone number you want to text!

All of the major US cell phone carriers allow you to send text messages using the standard email (SMTP) protocol. You can send a text message by sending an email to the phone. Here are the different email domains for the different carriers:

http://www.emailtextmessages.com/