[R] Mozilla 1.2

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

But what you set could be "open -a Mozilla": it does not have to be
`Mozilla'.  I assume that if `open' works from a shell in your example it
will equally work from the shell called by R to invoke the browser.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> The problem with that is we need to open an OX X Carbon application
> from the
> terminal command line. If we just set the browser to Mozilla it opens
> the X11 version,
> but you cannot open Mozilla.app without using the "open" command. Your
> suggestion will work, I hope, as soon as the GTK Mozilla is upgraded to
> 1.2
> in fink, provided that also handles the Java well. For the time being
> the
> little netscape script is a quiet and innocent hack. You can also call
> it
> mozilla, of course, and then use options("browser").
>
> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:49 AM, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> wrote:
>
> > You could just use the `browser' option to help.start to select Mozilla
> > 1.2, or options("browser").
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
> >
> >> I should be more specific here. It works if you use Mozilla 1.2 to go
> >> directly to the SearchEngine.html page in your $R_HOME. But
> >> if you use help.start() from R, you typically use Mozilla 1.1 from
> >> fink (the GTK version), which does not work. A quick hack is not to
> >> say help.start(), but to say
> >>
> >> system(paste("open -a
> >> Mozilla",paste(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"),"/doc/html/index.html",sep="")))
> >>
> >> This works for me and gives me the Carbon Mozilla 1.2. This does NOT
> >> work
> >> with Navigator, OmniWeb, and fortunately also not with MSIE.
> >>
> >> What also works is defining a script /usr/local/bin/netscape with
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> open -a Mozilla /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
> >>
> >> and then using help.start().
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:30 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
> >>
> >>> The R search engine (at least the one at
> >>> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/R-patched/doc/html/)
> >>> works again in Mozilla 1.2, released today (at least on OS X and with
> >>> JDK 1.4.1).
> >> ===
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> >> Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
> >> Software
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> Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
> Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
> Software
> US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
> phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
> homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
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