[R] system in windows

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 ggrothendieck at yifan.net wrote:

> On my system Netscape is in
>
> C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape 6\netscp6.exe
>
> so it appears that both the directory and the name
> of the executable itself can change between versions
> of Netscape.  Thus relying on a solution that makes use
> of either of these could be problematic if your aim
> is that it be widely applicable.
>
> I don't know how widely applicable the start method
> is but one improvement you could make over my
> prior suggestion that might increase how widely its
> applicable is to use something like this:
>
>   start c:\abc.htm
>
> or this
>
>   start http://www.google.com
>
> where c:\abc.htm is the local HTML file or
> http://www.google.com is the URL you want your browser
> to start up with.  That will use your default browser
> and you won't have to specify either the name or
> the path of your browser.

That is already built in as shell.exec(): please read what we have
provided for you.

All versions of Windows have start *if* shell is using the Windows shell:
but it does not need to.

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