[R] browseURL() bug

[Uwe Ligges]

Olivia Lau wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I'm getting the following warning:  
> 
> 
>>browseURL("http://www.r-project.org/")
>>No running window found.
> 
> Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":1.0".
> 
> This also comes up with htmlhelp = TRUE.  Is there any way to supress the 
> warning? 

No - at least not easily.

> I'm calling browseURL under R 1.8 for linux, and I'm calling 
> these commands within functions.  I tried invisible(), but it didn't get 
> rid of it.

The messages are from the Browser browseURL() tries to start via 
system(), hence only indirectly an R issue.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks, 
> 
> Olivia Lau.
> 
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