[R] calling an editor on MAC and Linux

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 14 Jun 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes:
>
> > R has an edit command that you could use!
> >
> > edit(file=outFile) is simple and system-independent.  'Nuff said?
>
> It doesn't work for general file editing (and isn't documented to do
> so):
>
> > edit(file="foo")
> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : An error occurred on line 3
>  use a command like
>  x <- edit()
>  to recover
>
> ...which is little wonder since "foo" contained an email. It will try
> to eval() the contents, which I don't think is desirable in all cases.

But I thought it was what Niels Waller wanted: maybe I misunderstood.

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