[Bioc-devel] R environment variable which indicates "running in the bioc build system"?

[Paul Shannon]

On Sep 12, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Pages, Herve <hpages using fredhutch.org> wrote:
> 
> However things seem to work as expected on the Linux builders:
> 
>   library(igvR)
>   igv <- igvR()
>   # attempting to open websocket connection on port 15000
>   # BrowserViz websocket ready after   1.20 seconds
>   ping(igv)
>   # [1] "pong"

Very promising - thanks, Herve.

I just tried this on one of my own ubuntu machines.  I see that no web browsers are yet installed.
Do you know which one is installed on the bioc Linux builders?  Is one of them headless?

> igv <- igvR()
attempting to open websocket connection on port 15000
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: x-www-browser: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: firefox: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: iceweasel: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: seamonkey: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: mozilla: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: epiphany: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: konqueror: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: chromium-browser: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: google-chrome: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: www-browser: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: links2: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: elinks: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: links: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: lynx: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 778: /usr/bin/xdg-open: w3m: not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:15000'