[R] Mozilla 1.2
Jan de Leeuw
deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 28 06:06:52 CET 2002
Curiously enough
> options(browser="open -a Mozilla")
> help.start()
open the index.html file in $R_HOME/doc/html in the default browser
(which happens to be Chimera on my machine, which has broken Java
support on Jaguar). So it ignores the -a switch. Maybe something with
shell
escapes (?). In the shell "open -a Mozilla foo.html" works fine.
Indeed, "open" will use the default browser defined in LaunchServices
if asked
to open a foo.html file. If I set Mozilla as my default browser in
System
Preferences, then even
> options(browser="open")
> help.start()
works fine. So this is another way to do it. But unfortunately I don't
want
carbon Mozilla as my default OS X browser. It's ugly.
So for me the little netscape script hack is the simplest way to go.
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:14 AM, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
wrote:
> 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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>>>> 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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>> http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
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>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
>
>
===
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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