[R] browseURL question

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On further checking, this does not happen if netscape/mozilla/firefox are
used locally, but it does happen if they are used remotely, as well as 
with gnome-moz-remote and kfmclient (I do not have galeon).  There were 
other problems: it tries to use -remote "openURL()" for unknown browsers 
(which is why firefox worked) and there it was not quoting $ which is not 
protected by the "".

Under exactly what circumstances with `UNIX' were you finding the 
problem?

The problems I have positively identified are fixed in R-devel now.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> The problem is the interpretation by the shell used on Unix: on Windows no
> shell is used. It seems to me that the Unix version of browseURl should be
> quoting `url' in
> 
>     remoteCmd <- if (isLocal)
>         switch(basename(browser), "gnome-moz-remote" = , open = url,
>             galeon = paste("-x", url), kfmclient = paste("openURL",
>                 url), netscape = , mozilla = , opera = , {
>                 paste("-remote \"openURL(", gsub("([,)])", "%\\1",
>                   url), ")\"", sep = "")
>             })
>     else url
> 
> either by escaping & by \ or surrounding it by single quotes.
> 
> I can't see a simple solution for you with the present R codebase.
> 
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 jtleek at u.washington.edu wrote:
> 
> > I have a quick question about the browseURL function. When I use the
> > function in a UNIX environment, I have to use two sets of quotations if
> > I have the & symbol in the URL. For Windows I only need to use the first
> > set. For example, on Windows:
> > browseURL("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Bioconductor&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt")
> > 
> > will call up the appropriate website. However, if I use the same command
> > under UNIX, the website will be truncated after the first &, but the
> > call will work if I use:
> > browseURL("'http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Bioconductor&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt'")
> > 
> > Where I have added single quotes around the URL.Is there any quick method for solving this problem? Thank you very much for your help.
> > 
> > 
> > Jeff Leek
> > Graduate Student
> > University of Washington
> > jtleek at u.washington.edu
> > 
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