[Rd] help.start

[Na Li]

On 11 Nov 2003, Jan de Leeuw uttered the following:
>  I have a /usr/local/bin/netscape script with
>  
>  #!/bin/sh
>  open /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
>  
>  which means help.start() starts Safari.
>  
>  On Nov 11, 2003, at 13:17, Stefano Iacus wrote:
>  
> >  Some user reported me that help.start() is no longer working on Panther
> >  under RAqua.  I don't have this problem on my machine but a couple of
> >  users repoterd me this.
> >  
> >  Can you please make this small test an eventually tell me which is  your
> >  system default browser?
> >  

I set my browser to "open", i.e., put 'options ("browser" = "open")' in
~/.Rprofile.  help.start () works fine from both the console and RAqua.
(My default browser is Mozilla Firebird 0.71).

Michael

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Na (Michael) Li, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor
Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota