[R] Opening a web browser from R?

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Use browseURL:

browseURL('about:blank')

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:55 AM,  <J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there's a way in R to open a web browser (such as
> Internet Explorer, or Firefox or whatever).
> I'm doing some analyses that have associated urls, and it would be nice to
> have the ability to directly open the relevant page from within R.
> I was looking at the help for 'url' and I can see I can probably access the
> information I need and display it in my own way, but can I somehow just open
> the given url with my web browser of choice?
>
> many thanks for any help,
>
> Jose
>
>
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