[R] Running Internet Explorer from Withing R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> "Walter R. Paczkowski" <dataanalytics at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Is it possible to open an html file using IE but from within R? I
>> wrote a small function to generate tables in html but I'd like to
>> write another function to call IE and open the html file.
>
> browseURL() (if it exists on Windows)

It does.

And more generally for any file type, shell.exec (only on Windows) opens 
a file with the associated application. (browseURL is built on top of 
shell.exec.)


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